In the latest installment of Mark Meynell's 5&1 series, he offers a playlist all about Scotland.

Mark Meynell's 5&1 series continues with a playlist for spring that expresses the joy of the season in a way that words fail.

Classical music to mark International Holocaust Remembrance Day.

Editor's Note: Part of  Mark Meynell's 5&1 series on classical music . Taking a different theme for each post, the 5&1 series offers five...

Mark Meynell leads us on a musical journey through the Iberian Peninsula.

Fairy tales are a serious business. In fact, they're almost too serious for children, which is probably why children of all ages adore them.

Editor's Note: This post resumes  Mark Meynell's 5&1 series on classical music . Taking a different theme each post, the 5&1 series...

Mark Meynell gives us six pieces of classical music for summer.

[Editor's Note: This post resumes Mark Meynell's 5&1 series on classical music  which ran from 2020-2021. Taking a different theme each...

[Editor's Note: This post resumes Mark Meynell's 5&1 series on classical music  which ran from 2020-2021. Taking a different theme each...

The Five & One series returns. Mark Meynell walks us through six pieces of classical music for Lent.

by Mark Meynell Infinite space offers infinite inspiration. That’s because, in the immortal words of the late, great Douglas Adams,...

by Mark Meynell No instrument exactly mimics the human voice, of course, but the clarinet comes close. A remarkably versatile instrument,...

It is only natural that those of an artistic temperament will be drawn to the natural world. Forms of human creativity are almost bound...

Without warning, Twelfth Night opens with Duke Orsino’s appearance on stage. He’s not alone, of course, but accompanied by a grand...

How on earth do you pick six compositions to represent an entire continent? Answer: You don’t. Because you can’t. So perhaps this is the...

The great jazz bass player Charlie Haden once said: The bass, no matter what kind of music you’re playing, it just enhances the sound and...

For years as an inveterate night-owl, the dawn has been one of those natural phenomena I mostly appreciate in the hypothetical rather...

It feels rather apt to be considering Exiles for this playlist, since I’m actually spending the week at the Rabbit Room mothership, North...

The Bard was hardly the world’s first literary giant to dramatize or narrate great historical moments; far from it. But no one was more...