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    • Tuesday, 31 January, 2023
      Review
      Simon Boccanegra, Deutsche Oper Berlin — politics and poisoning in Verdi’s dark thriller

      The capable cast fail to redeem Vasily Barkhatov’s lacklustre new production

    • Monday, 30 January, 2023
      Review
      Yuja Wang’s Rachmaninov marathon reminds us what it means to be human — review

      In a memorable performance interrupted by a medical emergency, the pianist performed all four of the composer’s piano concertos at Carnegie Hall

    • Monday, 30 January, 2023
      Review
      Boos ring out for I vespri siciliani at La Scala — review

      Hugo De Ana’s grim staging of Verdi’s opera in Milan is redeemed by explosive music

    • Monday, 30 January, 2023
      Life of a Song
      Whole Lotta Love — Led Zeppelin’s priapic classic has a tangled history

      The band’s singer Robert Plant admitted that the song’s lyrics were not wholly original

    • Friday, 27 January, 2023
      Review
      Best new album releases of the week
    • Friday, 27 January, 2023
      Best new album releases of the week
      The Reytons: What’s Rock and Roll? — spirited indie revivalism

      The Yorkshire fourpiece resurrect the genre with jostling, lively songs

    • Friday, 27 January, 2023
      Best new album releases of the week
      Sam Smith throws musical caution to the wind on Gloria

      The singer has broken new ground, but their fourth album is less revelatory

    • Friday, 27 January, 2023
      Best new album releases of the week
      The King’s Singers and Fretwork celebrate Renaissance composers in Tom and Will

      This entertaining album marks the 400th anniversary of the deaths of William Byrd and Thomas Weelkes

    • Friday, 27 January, 2023
      Best new album releases of the week
      Pandit Debashish Bhattacharya: The Sound of the Soul review — expansive Hindustani music

      The centrepiece of the album sees the guitarist stretching out across a 40-minute track

    • Wednesday, 25 January, 2023
      Music financing boom reverberates to markets

      Start-up is seeking to launch futures to let streaming companies and rights owners manage risks

    • Tuesday, 24 January, 2023
      Review
      Rogers, Parker, Sanders & Yeoh, Vortex Jazz Club — exceptional improvising

      The quartet were playing together for the first time but it did not show

    • Monday, 23 January, 2023
      Review
      Tan Dun’s Buddha Passion is a striking fusion of Chinese and western music

      The Royal Festival Hall performance won a standing ovation. Plus: Kinan Azmeh’s Clarinet Concerto

    • Monday, 23 January, 2023
      Review
      Sound Unwrapped concert series opens with drums, chimes, mallets . . . and moonbathing

      The Colin Currie Quartet made Kings Place resound with radical rhythms and technical precision

    • Monday, 23 January, 2023
      Life of a Song
      The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo — music hall hit was inspired by a shady character

      Fred Gilbert’s 1891 song told the story of a gambler and conman who hit a lucky streak

    • Friday, 20 January, 2023
      ObituaryDavid Crosby
      David Crosby, musician, 1941-2023

      Creatively radical Californian who pushed The Byrds and Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young to break new ground

    • Friday, 20 January, 2023
      The best of TV and streaming this week
      Fight the Power: How Hip Hop Changed the World — from Bronx streets to Oval Office

      Public Enemy’s Chuck D hosts a series focusing on rap’s rise and role as social commentary

    • Friday, 20 January, 2023
      ReviewAlbums
      Patricia Kopatchinskaja and Fazil Say defy expectations in Janáček, Brahms and Bartók

      Performances move from delicate to intense in this album of violin and piano works

    • Friday, 20 January, 2023
      FT MagazineRobert Shrimsley
      What Shakira gets wrong about men and their cars

      The star’s diss track about her ex, Gerard Piqué, proves our stereotypes about motors need updating

    • Friday, 20 January, 2023
      Best new album releases of the week
      Kenny Barron: The Source album review — shape-shifting modernism

      The pianist’s first solo piano album in more than 40 years conveys his urbane angularities with elegance

    • Friday, 20 January, 2023
      Best new album releases of the week
      Måneskin: Rush! — strutting songs of sex ’n’ drugs from Eurovision winners

      The foursome’s new record offers plenty of fun, at least until the buzz wears off

    • Friday, 20 January, 2023
      ReviewAlbums
      Ryuichi Sakamoto: 12 — the sound of ongoing life

      The solo musician and Oscar-winning composer has made a fascinating album of instrumentals

    • Thursday, 19 January, 2023
      Jackson Wang and China’s quest for a global pop idol

      The patriotic star embodies a push for success in the west, but can C-pop emulate the soft power of K-pop?

    • Tuesday, 17 January, 2023
      Review
      Five stars for Dialogues des Carmélites, Metropolitan Opera — outstanding ensemble in revolutionary drama

      There was a stellar soprano debut in the all-star cast for Poulenc’s drama of faith and fanaticism

    • Tuesday, 17 January, 2023
      Review
      Least Like The Other, Linbury Theatre — new opera tackles the forgotten Kennedy sister

      Brian Irvine and Netia Jones have created an intense piece but make some questionable choices

    • Monday, 16 January, 2023
      Life of a Song
      Cum On Feel the Noize — Slade’s hit blasted the door open for ‘hair metal’

      A cover version of their 1973 track paved the way for a new wave of bands

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