Simon Thompson

A typically omnivorous programme from Manze and the SCO in which principal flautist André Cebrián dazzles in a Mozart concerto. But it was all nearly upstaged by a solo lament for the Valencia floods.

Director Elizabeth Newman has solved a problem like Maria with an overwhelming sense of love for the material

Few films this year showcase intricate detail and epic scale like director Jon M. Chu's Wicked does.

Students at the Royal Academy of Music joined forces with the Dunedin Consort for this celebratory concert at Greyfriar’s Kirk in Edinburgh

The Gateshead venue is celebrating its 20th anniversary, starting with a performance from 302 enthusiastic amateurs

Director Lauren Greenhall and writing duo Amanda Jane Stern and Julian Seltzer’s Perfectly Good Moment is an erotic thriller that is skin-crawling to watch but not in a horrific way. While the movie is technically very well made, it is as flat as an East Anglian city in almost every other department, in my opinion which seems to be in the minority.

'Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes visual effects supervisor Erik Winquist detailsthe technological advances used for the third Apes film to conjure natural destructionon the screen: "A complete inferno."

By Simon Thompson , 07 December 2024 In February 2023 this same team – Aylen Pritchin , Maxim Emelyanychev and the Scottish Chamber Orchestra – played Brahms' Violin Concerto.

The original myth of the Pied-Piper Of Hamelin is something that has both fascinated and scared me in equal measure since childhood. The basic premise of a rat catcher blessed with a magical pipe to lead rats away from villages, is stiffed by a group of townspeople, so decides to lure the village’s children to a dark fate instead, is a story template from which many urban myths and horror fiction both in eastern and western cultures have been borrowing happily for centuries.

No strangers to collaborating on world-building, editors Amelia Allwarden and Anna Hauger relished the chance to come together to help shape Dune: Prophecy