The Scotsman’s music critics lend their ears to the latest releases from the world of music ANGER is not really an energy one associates with the self-possessed Nanci Griffith. But there are a couple of moments on her 20th album when she lets it hang out

The classic movie is being released by the BFI in its original UK X certificate and the DVD will include a wealth of extra features and a 44-page illustrated booklet. The Devils is based on John Whiting’s stage play and Aldous Huxley’s novel. In 17th cen

Venue isn’t everything. But when it’s an inspired one, it certainly helps. I was very excited to hear that Boston Lyric Opera’s next Opera Annex production — The Lighthouse, Peter Maxwell Davies’s scary {1979 chamber opera, in only its second Boston prod

Erik Jacobs for the Boston Lyric Opera The Lighthouse , with, from left: Christopher Burchett, David Cushing and John Bellemer, at John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum. BOSTON — The combination of exuberance and foreboding that seizes a lonely

A consistent highlight of recent Boston Lyric Opera seasons has been its Opera Annex series, offering a single production annually of more adventurous repertoire in a location outside the company’s home in the acoustically challenged Shubert Theatre. Thi

He looked like 21st century Lou Reed before Lou Reed did. Not sure what he looks like now though. Either way, really good music. Enjoyed Passages. Mozart and Haydn both wrote far more than nine symphonies... But exactly the same thing happened to Mahler,