For a working-class girl, swinging sixties London made culture accessible for the first time

How did a young Londoner thrown out of school end up writing a book with Britain’s biggest rap star?

The trio’s London recital featured works by Shostakovich, Ravel and Mendelssohn

The New York band seemed unsure how to approach their biggest headlining gig

A Magnus Lindberg premiere was the centrepiece of a concert that commemorated Armistice Day imaginatively

This concert performance of the composer’s antiwar opera featured a strong cast

Boito’s opera is well performed but insufficiently demonic

The Devon trio clumsily squash totalitarian critique and zany science into stadium-ready anthems

Songs are less richly arranged and more direct than previous albums, but the best ones are gripping

Tracks are supple and involving, a more complete experience than one might expect from the limited instrumentation

A graceful and uplifting recording of the ode to the patron saint of musicians

The genre-hopping singer takes on the personal and the political with trademark eloquence

Tapes from four recording sessions are edited, resulting in an album with a rhythmic core and spartan beats

The composer-producer may have won acclaim for ‘The Clock’, but he’d rather be known for his sonic compositions

On the re-release of defining albums by The Beatles and Bob Dylan, Peter Aspden explores our appetite for musical archaeology

All facets of the band’s musical personality were on show at their London gig

The jazz supergroup’s set combined structure with shape-shifting improvisations

Veteran calypso stars will be among the performers in a show celebrating the arrival of Caribbean immigrants

The composer’s new piece achieved transcendence, eventually

The composer’s work commemorates the first world war with brass, choirs and tenor

The band’s concert with an orchestra and Arthur Brown interludes was a mixed affair

A thoroughly satisfying concert performance of Stravinsky’s opera

The Brazilian supergroup created a carnival-style atmosphere at their first London show