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    • Saturday, 3 June, 2023
      Review
      New York Philharmonic/van Zweden — Julia Wolfe’s unEarth skirts pastiche with a worthy message

      Performed at David Geffen Hall, the new commission tackles humans’ use and abuse of the environment

    • Friday, 2 June, 2023
      Jo Ellison
      Kylie and the key to pop immortality

      Forget about relevance — just be reliable

    • Friday, 2 June, 2023
      Review
      Garsington Opera opens season with a picturesque Barbiere di Siviglia

      The Buckinghamshire festival also stages the young Mozart’s ‘Mitridate, re di Ponto’

    • Friday, 2 June, 2023
      ReviewAlbums
      Foo Fighters address grief and loss in sharply rocking But Here We Are

      The 11th studio album by Dave Grohl’s band follows the death of drummer Taylor Hawkins and the frontman’s mother

    • Friday, 2 June, 2023
      ReviewAlbums
      Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds return to familiar territory in Council Skies

      The Oasis alumnus brings muscularly romantic singing to his new record ahead of a rumoured reunion with brother Liam

    • Friday, 2 June, 2023
      ReviewAlbums
      Lawrence Brownlee: Rising — high-wire songs inspired by the Harlem Renaissance

      The tenor has smartly commissioned six composers to celebrate poems from the early 20th century

    • Friday, 2 June, 2023
      ReviewAlbums
      BCUC: Millions of Us — spiritual yearning and angry denunciation

      The Soweto band’s latest album includes trance-inflected polyrhythms and punning spoken word

    • Friday, 2 June, 2023
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      The music industry legend who spotted gold in Rick Astley

      Hartwig Masuch helped BMG become challenger to bigger labels in streaming era

    • Friday, 2 June, 2023
      HTSI
      The reinvention of Lily Allen

      How the pop princess survived success, and then found it all over again

    • Thursday, 1 June, 2023
      Interview
      Jonny Greenwood and Dudu Tassa on their ‘love letter to Arabic music’

      The guitarist and the singer explain why they tried not to be too purist — or political — on their new album of covers

    • Wednesday, 31 May, 2023
      The best books of the week
      Goodbye Russia: Rachmaninoff in Exile — a lament for a lost homeland

      From fleeing war and revolution to life as an émigré in the US, Fiona Maddocks profiles the much-loved Russian composer

    • Wednesday, 31 May, 2023
      Review
      Wiener Festwochen’s Lulu is profoundly unsettling

      Vienna festival’s retelling of Berg’s work expertly combines dance and opera

    • Wednesday, 31 May, 2023
      Review
      Bruce Springsteen battles mortality in three-hour Edinburgh show

      The 73-year-old showman displayed heroic endurance, backed by the E Street Band at Murrayfield Stadium

    • Tuesday, 30 May, 2023
      Review
      Zemira e Azor, Schwetzingen — a charming operatic treasure is unearthed

      Performed at the town’s Schlosstheater, this neglected fairytale work is a delight

    • Tuesday, 30 May, 2023
      Review
      Jazz musicians give black lives a voice at Ronnie Scott’s

      A project formed following the murder of George Floyd came to life on the London stage

    • Tuesday, 30 May, 2023
      The best summer music festivals worldwide

      Bob Dylan in Montreux, George Benjamin in Aix, Lana Del Rey almost everywhere: we cross genres and continents in our guide

    • Monday, 29 May, 2023
      Life of a Song
      Jump Around — how House of Pain amped up the Irishness for this party anthem

      The LA hip-hop crew forged a cultural identity for a track that went on to be widely covered and used in film soundtracks

    • Saturday, 27 May, 2023
      The Weekend Essay
      Can AI make me a musical star?

      As vocal clones of music’s biggest names go viral, the FT’s pop critic embarks on an unlikely quest to replicate his favourite singer’s voice

    • Saturday, 27 May, 2023
      Interview
      Roderick Williams embraces Aldeburgh’s sense of adventure

      The baritone and composer remembers performing on a coffin at the 2002 festival and is keen to push more boundaries this summer

    • Friday, 26 May, 2023
      ReviewAlbums
      Arlo Parks: My Soft Machine — a turn to pop suffocated by high expectations

      The singer’s prizewinning debut album, ‘Collapsed in Sunbeams’, has given her a high bar to reach

    • Friday, 26 May, 2023
      ReviewAlbums
      Shirley Collins: Archangel Hill — a folk star finds her voice again

      The vocalist’s third album after decades of near-silence shows her on careful but compelling form

    • Friday, 26 May, 2023
      ReviewAlbums
      Polish composer Grażyna Bacewicz captured in a high-energy album

      Pianist Peter Jablonski, conductor Nicholas Collon and the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra deliver urgent performances on this Ondine recording

    • Friday, 26 May, 2023
      ReviewAlbums
      Joy review — reissued album captures melting pot of 1970s London jazz

      Cadillac Records have rereleased a 1976 recording from the British quintet which sounds remarkably fresh

    • Thursday, 25 May, 2023
      ObituaryTina Turner
      Tina Turner, singer, 1939-2023

      Her hugely popular songs expressed her belief that, with enough will, people could do anything

    • Tuesday, 23 May, 2023
      Review
      Five stars for Die Zauberflöte, Metropolitan Opera, New York — dazzling new production gets metatheatrical

      In director Simon McBurney’s Met debut, Mozart’s opera receives clever twists, along with first-rate singing

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