The cult of Benjamin Britten lives on in Paul Kildea's new biography, painting the composer as a perennial victim

Benjamin Britten's gifts to British music, both as practitioner and patron, far outweigh his faults

While woeful arts coverage on ITV and the BBC looks beyond saving, the two Sky Arts channels offer brave, and often unpredictable, film-making

For too long British classical music has gone unheard. Thankfully, what was once deemed a "guilty pleasure" is now getting regular airtime