Manticore was owned by Emerson, Lake and Palmer and their manager. The organisation provided the name for the band’s label.

Jenny Saville’s peers shunned painting in favour of alternative media such as photography, video and installations, the artist stuck to her guns and, unapologetically, worked on canvases as large as ...

John Christie envisaged Wagner’s Parsifal with limited forces in the Organ Room at Glyndebourne. He would have been amazed to ...

Despite being Mercury nominated, Bazza’s hardly a household name. Nevertheless, his debut album When Will We Land was highly ...

Bartók: Piano Concertos 1-3 Tomáš Vrána (piano), Janáček Philharmonic Ostrava/Gábor Káli (Supraphon) ...

Siglo de Oro are a vocal ensemble who specialise in older music – and especially neglected older music – but they have also ...

Rebecca Lenkiewicz’s Hot Milk, adapted from Deborah Levy’s 2016 Man Booker shortlistee, has been described as a ...

There's something luminous about the Brad Mehldau Trio. The music they create with such joy shines with a special clarity, in ...

Poor, slightly silly Semele fries at the sight of lover Jupiter casting off his mortal form, but in Congreve’s and Handel’s ...

I recently heard a BBC Radio 4 presenter use the troubling phrase: ‘Not everyone agreed on the reality of that.’ Once the ...

I’m, like, pop star when I have to pop star, and then I’m, like, naked hippy when I can naked hippy.” So Kesha explained ...

Some world champion racing drivers make it look effortless, but it was never that way for Damon Hill. His path to the ...