With apps giving them air-raid warnings, the Kyiv-based musicians now see themselves as soldiers and their instruments as weapons. So what will they play when they arrive in Britain this month?
In the mid-60s, the Beatles tuned in to the world's most audacious experimental musicians. Paul McCartney reveals how many of the Fab Four's 'far-out' masterpieces were inspired by their sonic breakthroughs ...
Over 250 years after Gluck's Orpheus and Eurydice presented opera in a new way, an acrobatic staging aims to do the same. Iestyn Davies, whose Orpheus will be amid the tumblers, dancers and acrobats, writes of pushing boundaries - and heart-stopping ...
Bohuslav Martinu, a Czech composer who thrived on the artistic and scientific explosions of the 20th century, is the center of this summer's programming.