An evocative reading of Tippett's early masterpiece sits proudly alongside a blistering performance of Beethoven's lasting ...

The choir’s performance of African American spirituals had a profound effect on Tippett who would go on to use the spirituals as modern parallels to the chorales in Bach’s Passions.

Michael Zev Gordon [Claire Shovelton] THEODORE Adorno’s famous dictum about the impossibility of poetry after Auschwitz was a ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. When the audience at Glyndebourne filed out of the first UK production of Michael Tippett’s New Year in ...