LSO/Rattle review – lyrical Walton and outstanding Leila Josefowicz
Walton’s First Symphony was superbly played and conducted – as was Colin Matthews’s Violin Concerto, with Josefowicz as the fiercely committed soloist
May 2018
John Adams: Violin Concerto review – full-blooded and refined playing
Leila Josefowicz’s passionate and engaged recording of Adams’ concerto illustrates how he has remade the form in his own, eclectic image
March 2018
Top 10s
Top 10 books based in Tangier
From William Burroughs’s Naked Lunch to Paul Bowles’s translations of Moroccan authors, here are the best novels set in the city
June 2016
Colin Matthews: Violin Concerto CD review – rapt meditation for composer's 70th birthday
December 2015
Best culture 2015
The top 10 classical concerts and operas of 2015
Andris Nelsons and Simon Rattle led masterful surveys of Beethoven and Sibelius, the Proms made it great to stay up late, and opera brought moments both comic and surreal
September 2015
Autumn arts preview 2015
Classical and opera highlights: the must-sees of autumn 2015
Musical horizons stretch from Argentina to the Russian steppes, John Adams conducts his own UK premiere, Calixto Bieito and Kirill Karabits add spice, and there’s a valedictory visit from Riccardo Chailly
