Ernest: “You are incorrigible. But, seriously speaking, who needs art criticism? If [an artist’s] work is easy to understand, no explanation is necessary ” Gilbert: “And if his work is ...

Dir: Radu Mihaileanu. France-Romania-Belgium-Italy. 2009. 123 mins. The Concert was a big seller in pre-production at the Cannes market in 2008, and it’s easy to see why. The story is about a Russian ...

Le Concert Spirituel at St James's Spanish Place, review: King Charles jets home to show his commitment to music Despite a perverse treatment of Zadok the Priest, Hervé Niquet and his ensemble showed ...

Hear a consummate master of early music, conductor and viola da gamba player Jordi Savall, lead his ensemble Le Concert des Nations in an exhilarating array of 17th- and 18th-century French music.

For two thirds of its running time, Le Concert (The Concert for those non-French speakers) is the kind of feel-good foreign language flick that Hollywood falls over itself to remake. A shaggy story of ...

In which we learn, once more, that you can take utter tosh, douse it in classical music and – voilà! – you’ve got classy tosh masquerading as something meaningful. At the famous Bolshoi Theatre in ...