Alexandra Coghlan

Exploring the relationship between the cello and its player, Kate Kennedy describes how Anita Lasker-Wallfisch’s musical gift enabled her to survive not just one but two Nazi death camps

James Walvin’s Amazing Grace is a book landing in fertile soil

Before he was a professional singer, Ian Bostridge was a historian and Oxford research fellow

The eccentric Edwardian was the only English composer of her generation to achieve real international status in opera

Shanties are a symbol of the temporary, fragmented, partial world they come from: the Atlantic