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  • 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

  • Friday, 13 January, 2023
    Review
    The 1975 give a house party with a very special guest

    Matty Healy played the part of hard-drinking frontman at the band’s London show before making way for a star turn

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