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  • 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

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  • 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

  • Tuesday, 23 May, 2023
    Review
    Wozzeck, Royal Opera House — blood-red moon rises over a very modern tragedy

    Christian Gerhaher is exceptional as the downtrodden title character in Deborah Warner’s new production in London

  • Monday, 22 May, 2023
    Review
    Glyndebourne’s Don Giovanni, review — singing redeems a remarkably vague staging

    Andrey Zhilikhovsky excels in the title role of Mozart’s opera, but Mariame Clément’s production is a muddle

  • Monday, 22 May, 2023
    Life of a Song
    Tubular Bells — Mike Oldfield’s masterpiece still resonates 50 years on

    The largely wordless composition altered the course of music history

  • Monday, 22 May, 2023
    ReviewAlbums
    Tinariwen: Amatssou — an angry album full of betrayal

    The Tuareg band sing about military confrontations on tracks featuring producer Daniel Lanois

  • Friday, 19 May, 2023
    ReviewAlbums
    Paul Simon’s new album Seven Psalms tests the possibilities of faith

    The 81-year-old’s first album of new material in seven years bridges mysticism and melodicism

  • Friday, 19 May, 2023
    ReviewAlbums
    Max Bruch and Florence Price: Violin Concertos — clean, eloquent performances

    Randall Goosby is paired with the Philadelphia Orchestra in a new Decca recording

  • Friday, 19 May, 2023
    ReviewAlbums
    Lewis Capaldi: Broken by Desire to Be Heavenly Sent — the heart-on-sleeve bawler returns

    The Scottish singer’s second album provides an overheated selection of love and break-up songs

  • Thursday, 18 May, 2023
    Review
    Beyoncé, Cardiff review — star power on full display as the voice takes centre stage

    The singer was versatile and unfiltered as she tore through ballads, hip-hop and dancefloor bangers

  • Wednesday, 17 May, 2023
    Bertelsmann SE & Co KGaA
    Music label BMG appoints 33-year-old scion as chief executive

    German publisher brings forward replacement of Hartwig Masuch with Thomas Coesfeld

  • Wednesday, 17 May, 2023
    Interview
    Def Leppard: ‘We stuck it out. And we’re really good at it’

    The hard-rock veterans are riding a wave of popularity. Singer Joe Elliott and guitarist Phil Collen explain why

  • Tuesday, 16 May, 2023
    Review
    Chineke! Orchestra and Manchester Collective, Southbank Centre review — boundary-pushing bands light sparks

    Cellist Abel Selaocoe and kora-player Seckou Keita’s concerto offered sunshine, while guitarist Sean Shibe was touching

  • Monday, 15 May, 2023
    Life of a Song
    Kumbaya — twists and turns of a campfire favourite and civil rights anthem

    The story of the song’s origins has recently been updated, while its message has become corrupted by contemporary US politics

  • Sunday, 14 May, 2023
    Review
    Eurovision 2023 — Sweden’s Loreen wins nailbiter after Finland makes a late Cha-Cha-Charge

    Tvorchi represented Ukraine at the contest in Liverpool even as Russian missiles rained down on their home city of Ternopil

  • Friday, 12 May, 2023
    Review
    Young piano star Yunchan Lim makes a ferocious New York Phil debut

    His performance of Rachmaninov’s Piano Concerto No 3 at David Geffen Hall had fireworks but also subtle moments

  • Friday, 12 May, 2023
    Review
    A beautiful lieder recital from Renée Fleming and Evgeny Kissin — review

    The soprano and pianist performed with intensity and drama at Washington DC’s Kennedy Center

  • Friday, 12 May, 2023
    The best of TV and streaming this week
    The Stones and Brian Jones, BBC2 — portrait of a vulnerable rock legend

    Nick Broomfield’s absorbing and melancholic feature includes unseen archive footage of the band’s founder

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