Alexandra Dariescu (Photo: Nick Rutter) Back in 2018, I met up with pianist Alexandra Dariescu [see my interview] to chat about The Nutcracker and I, her innovative stage performance blending live piano music and dance […]
The suppurating discontent at one of England’s finest houses of worship burst into full flood in today’s Mail on Sunday. Sample: Winchester Cathedral is reeling from the controversy that has seen key figures leave, with […]
Our resident critic has spent his week at Handel and Mozart operas: by Alastair Macaulay In 1930, William Empson wrote a classic of literary criticism in “Seven Kinds of Ambiguity”. In subsequent decades, the title […]