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    • Monday, 2 October, 2023
      HTSI
      Five great musical gadgets – from a reissued Moog synth to a folding guitar

      Tech that really strikes a chord

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      Marshall Studio JTM ST20C9
    • Saturday, 30 September, 2023
      Interview
      India’s only symphony orchestra displays its international reach

      Zakir Hussain’s Triple Concerto is an intricate meeting of musical traditions

    • Friday, 29 September, 2023
      Review
      Five stars for PJ Harvey, tackling the big themes at London’s Roundhouse — review

      The singer’s mesmerising show had the timeless feel of deep myth

      A female singer stands on stage with her arms outstretched; behind her a seated man plays acoustic guitar and a man plays keyboard in the shadows
    • Friday, 29 September, 2023
      Review
      Dead Man Walking, Metropolitan Opera — death-row drama brings audience to tears

      Joyce DiDonato is lustrous in Jake Heggie’s opera, which tells of a nun-prisoner relationship

      A man sits forlornly on the floor while a woman kneels next to him, eyes closed, and puts her arms around him
    • Friday, 29 September, 2023
      ReviewAlbums
      Superblue: The Iridescent Spree — an edgy mix of swing and soul

      The second release from Charlie Hunter and Kurt Elling’s Grammy-nominated project crackles and soars

      A group of four men in varying semi-smart clothes look intent outdoors
    • Friday, 29 September, 2023
      ReviewAlbums
      Igor Levit: Fantasia — freedom and rigour

      The pianist’s latest set ranges widely over the centuries, with works by Busoni, Bach, Berg and Liszt

      Igor Levit, with black hair and a beard, stands against a wall next to a grand piano with his hands behind his back. He wears a grey cardigan, white shirt, black tie and grey trousers
    • Friday, 29 September, 2023
      ReviewAlbums
      Jorja Smith finds a way forward with Falling or Flying

      The Walsall singer follows her meteoric rise to fame with a thoughtful follow-up to her 2018 debut

      A close of up of a young woman’s smiling face showing sparkly gems on her teeth
    • Thursday, 28 September, 2023
      ReviewAlbums
      Ed Sheeran: Autumn Variations — less introspection yields better songs

      Collaboration with Aaron Dessner of The National puts the singer’s friends first

      Ed Sheeran, with messy ginger hair and in a white T-shirt, is playing the guitar and singing into a microphone
    • Thursday, 28 September, 2023
      ReviewDance
      Black Sabbath: The Ballet tests mettle of dancers in Birmingham — review

      Birmingham Royal Ballet is on cracking form in a show that celebrates one of the city’s greatest musical exports

      A group of dancers wearing ‘Black Sabbath’ T-shirts kneel on stage; behind them an effigy of a winged, horned demon rises from the body of a silvery car
    • Wednesday, 27 September, 2023
      Review
      Raye, Royal Albert Hall — a resounding victory

      The singer mixed Hollywood-style glamour with south London attitude

      A female singer stands on stage smiling with her arms outstretched; behind her, a man conducts an orchestra
    • Tuesday, 26 September, 2023
      News in-depthNigeria
      Nigerian rapper’s death exposes murky side of Afrobeats music

      Rising star’s sudden demise after raising maltreatment accusations puts genre in the spotlight

      People hold candle lights and a flare during a minute of silence at a protest inside a park in Lagos, Nigeria to demand justice for Afrobeat star MohBad following his mysterious death
    • Monday, 25 September, 2023
      Review
      Jonas Kaufmann and Helmut Deutsch cast a spell in Doppelganger at New York’s Park Avenue Armory — review

      Director Claus Guth brings dancers, actors and sound effects to his staging of Schubert songs

      A man lies semi-prone on a metal hospital bed amid rows of identical beds
    • Monday, 25 September, 2023
      Review
      English National Opera relishes its new lease of life with Peter Grimes — review

      Plus: light relief in L’elisir d’amore at London’s Royal Opera House

      A woman and a man stand close together looking anxious; he is holding her arm and leaning against her
    • Monday, 25 September, 2023
      Life of a Song
      You Are My Sunshine — from country standard to soul belter

      First recorded in 1939 and covered by acts such as Aretha Franklin and Johnny Cash, it’s a song for all seasons

      In a photograph from the 1940s, a man stands in front of a microphone; surrounding him are a group of men in hats, one carrying a guitar, while down to one side is a smiling woman
    • Saturday, 23 September, 2023
      Interview
      Composer Melinda Maxwell: ‘Music is not something that can be nailed down’

      Her new album celebrates her fascination with improvisation — and uses an ancient instrument

      A woman with shortish grey hair emerges out of the shadows
    • Friday, 22 September, 2023
      ReviewAlbums
      Asynchrone: Plastic Bamboo — jazzy reworkings of Ryuichi Sakamoto’s music

      Textures of the late Japanese composer’s songs are radically reimagined, but the melodies shine through

      The six-member Asynchrone (some standing, others seated) look seriously at the camera
    • Friday, 22 September, 2023
      ReviewAlbums
      Doja Cat: Scarlet — rapper puts freedom over fans with smart hip-hop

      The Californian’s lyrics have a sure ear for rhyme and range from crude to absurd

      Female pop artist Doja Cat poses in front of old TV sets wearing a pink sleeveless top and a mini skirt
    • Friday, 22 September, 2023
      ReviewAlbums
      Kylie Minogue: Tension — Padam Padam sets unmatchable peak

      The lead single is no late-career fluke, even if this is not all vintage Kylie

      Kylie Minogue holds a large gemstone over her eye, her face bathed in a green light while a bright background fades from yellow to orange
    • Friday, 22 September, 2023
      ReviewAlbums
      Offenbach: La Princesse de Trébizonde — a fluffy treat of an opera

      The London Philharmonic Orchestra performs this rarity in sparkling style

      Anne-Catherine Gillet, with a brown ponytail and wearing a striped shirt, smiles
    • Thursday, 21 September, 2023
      Review
      Brad Mehldau live review — jazz piano with unique interpretations

      The American brought subtle changes in mood to a new commission at London’s Wigmore Hall

      A middle-aged man sits playing a grand piano
    • Thursday, 21 September, 2023
      FT SeriesIcons only – the HTSI autumn arts special 2023
      The magic of Tamino

      The Belgian-Egyptian singer, named after the hero of Mozart’s famous opera, is producing his own spellbinding tunes

      Tamino-Amir Moharam Fouad wears Brioni cotton denim trucker jacket, £1,950, and jeans, £1,180. Orlebar Brown cashmere T-shirt, £195. Lemaire vegetable-tanned leather New Western boots, £760
    • Wednesday, 20 September, 2023
      ReviewNon-Fiction
      Goth by Lol Tolhurst — doom and musical gloom

      Funereal outfits, trippy guitars, thunderous drums: goth music is one of the most enduring sub-genres in rock. But why?

    • Wednesday, 20 September, 2023
      Review
      The Royal Opera’s La forza del destino goes at full throttle

      Also in London: cultured sound of the Bayerisches Staatsorchester at the Barbican

      In a scene from an opera, a bearded man stands behind a woman, singing, and draping a cape around her shoulders
    • Wednesday, 20 September, 2023
      FT SeriesIcons only – the HTSI autumn arts special 2023
      J Balvin takes on the art world

      The reggaeton superstar has teamed up with Hirshhorn director Melissa Chiu to bring art – and awareness – to Gen Z

      Melissa Chiu and J Balvin in front of Aspiring to Pumpkin’s Love, the Love in My Heart, 2023, by Yayoi Kusama, at David Zwirner, New York
    • Monday, 18 September, 2023
      Review
      Five stars for Das Floß der Medusa, Berlin — Henze’s oratorio staged with breathtaking skill

      The Komische Oper performs this epic work with massed choirs in an abandoned aircraft hangar

      A scene from an opera shows a large crowd of distressed and panicking people next to a body of water; some people are in the water, and a wooden barrel is floating in it
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