To begin where the evening ended, it surely must be that the phenomenal standing ovation which concluded Arthur Verocai's concert was the most tumultuous ever heard in Barbican Hall. It was loud ...

Introducing Travels Over Feeling: The Music Of Arthur Russell from the stage, Tom Lee, Arthur Russell's surviving partner, said, "There are probably more people here tonight than ever saw Arthur ...

The Barbican Centre’s 2010/11 programme will include the UK premiere of a ‘dramatised concert’ retelling of the life of an Austrian serial killer, starring Hollywood star John Malkovich. Titled The ...

Wearing a T-shirt emblazoned with the name of American metal band Goatwhore, Stephin Merritt and his Magnetic Fields bandmates arrived in London last weekend to celebrate the 25th anniversary of their ...

Three key British theatre companies are commissioned on hellish themes: Julian Crouch’s Improbable in The Devil and Mister Punch, Complicite in a new production of Bulgakov’s infernal story The Master ...

The screening of Sergei Eistenstien’s 1938 film Alexander Nevsky at the Barbican Hall had the hallmarks of a big budget première. Seats were sold out; a huge silver screen dominated the stage; and the ...

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The London Symphony Orchestra’s Olivier Stankiewicz was the soloist for the premiere of Colin Matthews’s oboe concerto; Rachmaninov and Bartók followed, with Chan compelling and clear ...

Samoan choreographer Lemi Ponifasio’s chant-filled music-theatre piece – performed by Theatre of Kiribati and Britten Sinfonia – pushes Mahler into uncharted waters Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde ...