Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Charlie Burrell’s big left hand cradles the neck of the upright bass like a baby, his right hand coaxing a cascade of notes from the instrument’s wooden ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. A classical ensemble commences a sleek symphony; strings, woodwind and brass sections entwine — then a storming ...

It is no surprise when he later drops in to conversation that he has “always had an obsession with things doing what they’re supposed to do” and gets “the heebie-jeebies with things that look pretty ...