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    • Monday, 20 March, 2023
      Review
      London orchestras show their sense of adventure with new narrative works — review

      ‘Beowulf’ and ‘The Dong with a Luminous Nose’ were at the centre of two ambitious programmes

    • Monday, 20 March, 2023
      Life of a Song
      Super Freak — Rick James’s irresistible bassline spawned a hit, and a lawsuit

      The 1981 track epitomised the singer’s spirit and was sampled a decade later by MC Hammer

    • Friday, 17 March, 2023
      Review
      Five stars for saxophonist Chris Potter at Ronnie Scott’s — review

      The veteran tenor player led his quartet through a captivating show

    • Friday, 17 March, 2023
      Review
      Lizzo unleashes full-power vocals at London’s O2 Arena

      The singer’s performance was big on feelgood sloganeering but had most impact when the music did the talking

    • Friday, 17 March, 2023
      Review
      Les contes d’Hoffmann at La Scala, Milan — Vittorio Grigolo saves the day

      A volcano of operatic energy, the tenor redeems an otherwise disappointing production

    • Friday, 17 March, 2023
      ReviewAlbums
      U2: Songs of Surrender — 40 songs remade in a lockdown project gone too far

      The band revisit their back catalogue with varying degrees of success

    • Friday, 17 March, 2023
      ReviewAlbums
      Hyperpop duo 100 Gecs go mainstream with 10,000 Gecs

      Once acclaimed as the ‘future of pop’, the US duo are now releasing their second album

    • Friday, 17 March, 2023
      ReviewAlbums
      Yuja Wang: The American Project — glittering finger-work

      The pianist gives a flamboyant performance of Teddy Abrams’s Piano Concerto

    • Friday, 17 March, 2023
      ReviewAlbums
      Steel pans take centre stage in Leon Foster Thomas’s Calasanitus

      The Trinidad-born virtuoso showcases the instrument’s edge and bite in an album of mostly original tracks

    • Thursday, 16 March, 2023
      Musician Jake Shears: ‘I’ve always liked making weirder stuff’

      The ex Scissor Sisters singer on collaborating with Elton John on a hit West End show and Kylie Minogue on his new album

    • Wednesday, 15 March, 2023
      HTSI
      Cult Shop: guitars so good, Mark Knopfler wrote a song about them

      John Monteleone’s instruments are one of a kind. No wonder there’s a three-year waiting list

    • Monday, 13 March, 2023
      Review
      Royal Opera’s Turandot revival is a blazing masterpiece — review

      Puccini’s music glitters with invention under the baton of Antonio Pappano. Plus: Henze’s ‘El Cimarrón’ at Wigmore Hall

    • Monday, 13 March, 2023
      Life of a Song
      At Last — Etta James poured her heart into this classic tune

      The singer cemented the 1941 track as a standard and dozens more covered it — including Beyoncé

    • Friday, 10 March, 2023
      BBC
      Maestros in uproar over BBC’s classical music cuts

      Musicians lament broadcaster’s decision to scale back jobs for orchestral and choral performers

    • Friday, 10 March, 2023
      ReviewAlbums
      Ali Farka Touré: Voyageur — gentle guitar grooves

      A cache of previously unreleased songs recorded by the Malian master between 1991 and 2004

    • Friday, 10 March, 2023
      ReviewAlbums
      Antonio Pappano conducts Puccini’s Turandot with blazing colour

      Jonas Kaufmann is a superb Calaf on a disc that holds up against the opera’s great recordings of the past

    • Thursday, 9 March, 2023
      Review
      Rising singer Raye shows tenacity and vulnerability at the Roundhouse — review

      Wide-ranging and heartfelt London show moved from jazzy and soulful singing to rapping

    • Thursday, 9 March, 2023
      ReviewAlbums
      Sleaford Mods return with sardonic and furious flights of fancy on UK Grim

      The laureates of grotty Britain offer portraits of posturing punk bands and pointless punch-ups on their 12th album

    • Thursday, 9 March, 2023
      ReviewAlbums
      Van Morrison takes a break from pub-bore lectures with Moving on Skiffle

      The 77-year-old’s third album in as many years is a tribute to the 1950s music that first inspired him

    • Thursday, 9 March, 2023
      FT Globetrotter
      Gig economy: the best live music venues in Melbourne

      Whether you’re into sticky-carpet dives or concrete-clad concert halls, the Victorian capital caters to every musical taste

    • Wednesday, 8 March, 2023
      Review
      Five stars for Bavarian State Opera’s stunning War and Peace

      Staged in Munich, Prokofiev’s work is played and sung with passionate commitment

    • Wednesday, 8 March, 2023
      Africa special
      How Afrobeats took over the world — and is still evolving

      Its biggest stars are filling stadiums and winning Grammys while forging new collaborations across Africa and the world

    • Tuesday, 7 March, 2023
      Review
      Orwell’s Animal Farm recast as a shrieking, in-your-face opera — review

      Premiered at the Dutch National Opera in Amsterdam, Alexander Raskatov’s work creates a compelling sound-world

    • Tuesday, 7 March, 2023
      Review
      English Touring Opera’s Il viaggio a Reims is an inspired choice — review

      Opening its UK tour at London’s Hackney Empire, Rossini’s coronation opera is timely and features sparkling music

    • Monday, 6 March, 2023
      Review
      Seattle Opera’s A Thousand Splendid Suns — labour of love finally reaches the stage

      Sheila Silver’s long-planned opera strips down its source material effectively, even if the music’s non-western elements are underplayed

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