Classical Music

Time Out's critics pick the best books to be giving as Christmas presents: art books, film books, classical music books and top reads in comedy, dance, music and theatre

Time Out's critics forsake the stalls to check out the cheap seats at the capital’s top arts venues

Monkey, hero of Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett’s opera ‘Monkey: Journey to the West’, isn’t just immortal: he’s pretty old too. Time Out traces the story of the demon-clobbering primate back to its origins in mystic Ming-dynasty legend

Time Out meets Ian Bostridge, a south London-born former university academic who, despite no formal singing training, turned his hobby into a successful career as a tenor

Music from ’70s cop shows? Noise fights with the brass section? Just what is Bill Bailey up to at the Royal Albert Hall?

On the eve of a major conducting competition, Time Out talks music, maestri and Metalheadz with the pro baton-wielder and Goldie mentor Ivor Setterfield

As Time Out turns 40, Time Out looks at the estimable institutions on London’s classical music scene that have come into being in the last four decades

East End boy and - having written classic scores for Peter Greenaway films and ‘The Piano’ - one of the UK's best-known composers, Michael Nyman is one of our 40th birthday heroes