Modernism is us. Today. For the past two decades plays by Samuel Beckett and Harold Pinter – which once upon a time ...

Akira Kurosawa’s Ikiru (To Live) begins with an X-ray photo of the central character’s cancer-ridden stomach, a man described by the narrator (an uncredited Kurosawa) as someone “drifting through ...

Evangeline Mason I heard was six years ago, a simple song in a multi-composer “Manchester Peace Song Cycle” performed at the ...

How do you make a two-part final featuring five piano concertos work as a couple of totally satisfying programmes? First, ...