The vibe of Doveland is one that is reminiscent of Junip, José González’s band from the early 2000s, with its atmospheric songs seemingly being conjured from dreams and mysteries. Gentle and melodic, ...

Let's get her contributions out of the way first and hope for better next time (which will happen; I've heard better before). Middleton had the inspired idea of starting with the Adagio from Bach's D ...

The infectious, far-from-solemn, brio of Bates and his crew capped this year’s week-long London Festival of Baroque Music in Smith Square. Bates’s determination that Bach’s monumental setting of the ...

A new mum (Seidi Haarla) tracks her voracious baby in 'Nightborn' Those around Saga dismiss her fears – “These new creatures can feel completely alien to us,” says one unhelpful nurse – and her ...

More interestingly, the channel has also served up a batch of conspicuously female-centric pieces, albeit with mixed results. The murdered-girl story A Mother's Son felt like a series brutally ...

There were some echoes of Ian McKellen's film of Richard III, set in a Fascist 1930s England, but Macbeth's supernatural overtones make it particularly well suited to drawing out interiorised themes ...

A lot, obviously, as Morpurgo plays other characters who populate this tale – the strict principal, the school bully and a cheerleader among them – but chiefly that he loses his diary which contains, ...

But credit where credit’s due. The score sounds magnificent under Walker’s baton: alive with energy and passion, intense and rhythmically vigorous in the folksong tunes and dance numbers, tender and ...

His wife Rachel has recently died, leaving him with teenage daughter Kim (Chloe Sweetlove) to bring up and battling a serious alcohol problem. When in doubt he’s liable to reach for his hip flask, and ...

The screenplay, co-written with Berlin Babylon creator Hendrik Handloegten, plays a little fast and loose with history. Invited to celebrate the centenary of Goethe by giving a lecture tour, Mann was ...

Calling itself “a work of fiction based on true events”, it follows IGPN (Internal Affairs) officer Stéphanie’s enquiry into a teenager’s claim to have been badly injured by riot police. Meticulously ...

Upon its live debut at the Royal Albert Hall in 2014, the eight-movement concept piece was deemed by the Guardian as having too little involvement from Lowe and lacking in the forward-looking drive ...