Dorothy howell

The piece I’d never part with

Two British women who defied Hollywood stereotyping

Forty years ago this September, Kate Bush released Hounds Of Love . Her fifth studio record reinstated her position as one of the most innovative and creative artists of all time and yielded the (future) chart-topper Running Up That Hill . But its creation wasn’t always smooth. Here’s the story behind one of Bush’s best-loved albums.

Errollyn Wallen, Master of the King’s Music, talks to Henrietta Bredin about the scary aspects of composing, remote working in Orkney and the Proms concerts to which she is most looking forward

Wyndham Lewis’s pro-fascist polemical novel was enabled by a left-wing writer

Norman Lebrecht on Music HE WORKED SO ...