Alexandra Coghlan

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

The St Matthew is all about drawing us in closer, giving us time to reflect, feel, interject, to doubt even