Accessibility helpSkip to navigationSkip to contentSkip to footer

Cookies on FT Sites

We use cookies for a number of reasons, such as keeping FT Sites reliable and secure, personalising content and ads, providing social media features and to analyse how our Sites are used.

Accept & continue
Manage cookies
  • Sign In
  • Subscribe
Open side navigation menuOpen search bar
Financial Times
SubscribeSign InmyFT
  • Home
  • World
    Sections
    • World Home
    • Global Economy
    • UK
    • US
    • China
    • Africa
    • Asia Pacific
    • Emerging Markets
    • Europe
    • War in Ukraine
    • Americas
    • Middle East & North Africa
    • Australia & NZ
    Most Read
    • Beto O’Rourke interrupts press conference on Texas school massacre
    • ECB warns a house price correction is looming as interest rates rise
    • Military briefing: Ukraine’s battlefield agility pays off
    • China’s premier issues stark warning on economy as growth stalls
    • Military briefing: battle for Sievierodonetsk shows Russian strategy in Donbas
  • US
    Sections
    • US Home
    • US Economy
    • US Companies
    • US Politics & Policy
    Most Read
    • EY plans global audit spin-off in drastic Big Four shake-up
    • Fed officials raised possibility of ‘restrictive’ policy to fight inflation
    • Elon Musk must find more cash for Twitter deal after scrapping margin loan
    • Beto O’Rourke interrupts press conference on Texas school massacre
    • On the waterfront: the political fight over organised crime at the Port of New York
  • Companies
    Sections
    • Companies Home
    • Energy
    • Financials
    • Health
    • Industrials
    • Media
    • Professional Services
    • Retail & Consumer
    • Tech Sector
    • Telecoms
    • Transport
    Most Read
    • EY plans global audit spin-off in drastic Big Four shake-up
    • Elon Musk must find more cash for Twitter deal after scrapping margin loan
    • Klarna CEO says fintech will focus less on growth and more on ‘short-term profitability’
    • Pfizer warns of ‘constant waves’ of Covid as complacency grows
    • Vanguard refuses to end new fossil fuel investments
  • Tech
  • Markets
    Sections
    • Markets Home
    • Alphaville
    • Markets Data
    • Capital Markets
    • Commodities
    • Currencies
    • Equities
    • Fund Management
    • Trading
    • Moral Money
    • ETF Hub
    • Cryptocurrencies
    Most Read
    • Live news: Pentagon estimates Russia has lost nearly 1,000 tanks in Ukraine conflict
    • Live news updates from May 25: Musk must find cash for Twitter deal, Fed officials discussed ‘restrictive’ policy to fight inflation
    • Wall Street stocks make further gains after release of Fed minutes
    • Quant hedge funds reap windfall during 2022 market ructions
    • US house prices never go down
  • Climate
  • Opinion
    Sections
    • Opinion Home
    • Columnists
    • The FT View
    • The Big Read
    • Lex
    • Obituaries
    • Letters
    Most Read
    • Olivier Blanchard: ‘There’s a tendency for markets to focus on the present and extrapolate it forever’
    • Britain isn’t working. That should concern us all
    • No one is ready for the rising tide of climate litigation
    • Even Sue Gray’s scathing verdict is little threat to this prime minister
    • Partygate report reveals a prime minister unfit to lead
  • Work & Careers
    Sections
    • Work & Careers Home
    • Business School Rankings
    • Business Education
    • Entrepreneurship
    • Recruitment
    • Business Books
    • Business Travel
    Most Read
    • Race at work: how hard are companies really trying?
    • Vive la différence between work and play
    • Why presenteeism is an enduring corporate narcotic
    • ‘A bonfire of the decencies’: Peter Hennessy on Boris Johnson’s government
    • The cold call is back and worse than ever
  • Life & Arts
    Sections
    • Life & Arts Home
    • Arts
    • Books
    • Food & Drink
    • FT Magazine
    • House & Home
    • Style
    • Travel
    • FT Globetrotter
    Most Read
    • The best of Cannes Film Festival 2022
    • ‘It’s not flavourless. It’s delicate and really, really nice’: the UK’s lager revolution
    • Kylie Minogue, uncorked
    • Tom Cruise is back in the cockpit for humdinger spectacle Top Gun: Maverick
    • The supposed method in El Salvador’s crypto madness
  • How to Spend It
MenuSearch
  • Home
  • World
  • US
  • Companies
  • Tech
  • Markets
  • Climate
  • Opinion
  • Work & Careers
  • Life & Arts
  • How to Spend It
Financial Times
SubscribeSign In

Your guide to a disrupted world

Start a 4-week trial

Albums

Add to myFT Digest

Add this topic to your myFT Digest for news straight to your inbox

  • Friday, 20 May, 2022
    Best new album releases of the week
    Simon Rattle lets his hair down with London Symphony Orchestra for Nazareno

    This energising album of jazz-related works features a Stravinsky concerto and a percussion-filled suite

  • Friday, 20 May, 2022
    Best new album releases of the week
    Catrin Finch and Seckou Keita: Echo — Welsh harp meets Senegalese kora

    The duo reunite for their third album, supported by a string section

  • Friday, 20 May, 2022
    Best new album releases of the week
    Harry Styles’ boy-next-door appeal persists with new album Harry’s House

    The singer comes across as warm and unspoiled in his third solo album since One Direction hung up their singlets

  • Friday, 20 May, 2022
    Best new album releases of the week
    Mary Halvorson explores sonic extremes in Amaryllis and Belladonna

    Two new albums mark the guitarist’s first forays into long-form composition for a quartet of strings

  • Wednesday, 18 May, 2022
    Best new album releases of the week
    Spotify record-breaker Bad Bunny returns — Un Verano Sin Ti review

    One of the biggest names in pop reaches 183mn streams in a single day with his new album of dance jams and summer anthems

  • Friday, 13 May, 2022
    Best new album releases of the week
    Arcadia Quartet give a first-rate performance in Weinberg: String Quartets

    This Chandos recording offers a fascinating sample of the composer’s chamber music

  • Friday, 13 May, 2022
    Best new album releases of the week
    Ches Smith’s Interpret It Well marries vibrant tones with a vibraphone

    The musician’s 10th release, supported by piano, guitar and viola, maintains a fascinating grip

  • Friday, 13 May, 2022
    Best new album releases of the week
    The Master Musicians of Jajouka led by Bachir Attar evoke rituals in Dancing Under the Moon

    Wailing rhaitas meet edgy percussion as the Moroccan group draw on old musical traditions

  • Thursday, 12 May, 2022
    Best new album releases of the week
    Radiohead spin-off The Smile release majestic debut A Light for Attracting Attention

    The band’s guitarist Jonny Greenwood and singer Thom Yorke are joined by Tom Skinner for an anything-goes album

  • Thursday, 12 May, 2022
    Best new album releases of the week
    Florence + the Machine’s new album Dance Fever is a winner

    The band’s latest release confirms Welch’s supremacy with no-holds-barred songs of downfall and redemption

  • Friday, 6 May, 2022
    Review
    Two stars for Arcade Fire’s baggy and bombastic new album WE

    The Canadian indie-rockers strive for the heights in their latest release but struggle to get airborne

  • Friday, 6 May, 2022
    Best new album releases of the week
    Soft Cell’s *Happiness Not Included defies the cynic and rewards the romantic

    The estranged 1980s synth-pop duo of Marc Almond and Dave Ball reunite for another album

  • Friday, 6 May, 2022
    Review
    Leyla McCalla: Breaking The Thermometer — an album of Haitian history and rhythms

    The singer weaves together traditional songs, her own compositions, interviews and radio broadcasts

  • Friday, 6 May, 2022
    Review
    Andris Nelsons’s Strauss Alliance — lush playing from two orchestras under one conductor

    The project unites his Boston Symphony Orchestra and Gewandhausorchester Leipzig

  • Friday, 6 May, 2022
    Review
    Tigran Hamasyan: StandArt — vivid imagination

    The pianist and composer applies his florid technique to the standard jazz repertoire of the American songbook

  • Friday, 29 April, 2022
    Review
    Kelly Lee Owens’s LP.8 combines floaty mysticism with heavy industrial beats

    The Welsh electronic musician channels both Enya and Throbbing Gristle in her third album

  • Friday, 29 April, 2022
    Review
    Al-Namrood release a sonic assault in Worship the Degenerate

    The eighth album from the Saudi Arabian heavy metal band ferociously blends western and eastern styles

  • Friday, 29 April, 2022
    Review
    A new box-set captures the fierce energy of saxophonist Albert Ayler

    The jazz musician’s avant-garde sound ripples through recordings of two 1970 concerts at the Fondation Maeght

  • Friday, 29 April, 2022
    Review
    Christian Gerhaher tackles Schoeck’s feverish song cycle Elegie

    Strong support from the Kammerorchester Basel creates a hothouse of desolate emotion on this Sony recording

  • Friday, 29 April, 2022
    Review
    Jasdeep Singh Degun modernises Indian classical music on Anomaly

    The British sitarist’s debut album audaciously mixes styles from the subcontinent

  • Friday, 22 April, 2022
    Review
    Post-punks Fontaines DC explore uprooted Irishness on Skinty Fia

    The Dublin band, now based in London, mix anger and melancholia in a well-constructed album of lyrical depth

  • Friday, 22 April, 2022
    Review
    James Heather: Invisible Forces — dreamy, poignant, beautiful

    The pianist incorporates a more intently autobiographical tone in his second album

  • Friday, 22 April, 2022
    Review
    Jazz legend Charles Mingus’s centenary celebrated with two albums

    A lost 1972 session and alternate takes from 1957 mark what would have been the composer’s 100th birthday

  • Friday, 22 April, 2022
    Review
    English Concert offers no weak links in Handel’s La resurrezione

    The Easter oratorio is lavishly sung and features unexpected instrumental combinations

  • Friday, 22 April, 2022
    Review
    Oumou Sangaré celebrates regional and national pride in Timbuktu

    The Malian singer returns with sounds and themes deeply rooted in her country

Previous page You are on page 1 Next page

Useful links

Support

View Site TipsHelp CentreContact UsAbout UsAccessibilitymyFT TourCareers

Legal & Privacy

Terms & ConditionsPrivacy PolicyCookiesCopyrightSlavery Statement & Policies

Services

Share News Tips SecurelyIndividual SubscriptionsGroup SubscriptionsRepublishingExecutive Job SearchAdvertise with the FTFollow the FT on TwitterFT TransactSecondary Schools

Tools

PortfolioToday's Newspaper (ePaper)Alerts HubBusiness School RankingsEnterprise ToolsNews feedNewslettersCurrency Converter

Community & Events

FT CommunityFT LiveFT ForumsFT Board DirectorBoard Director Programme

More from the FT Group

Markets data delayed by at least 15 minutes. © THE FINANCIAL TIMES LTD 2022. FT and ‘Financial Times’ are trademarks of The Financial Times Ltd.
The Financial Times and its journalism are subject to a self-regulation regime under the FT Editorial Code of Practice.
Financial Times

International Edition

Subscribe for full access
  • Switch to UK Edition
  • Top sections
  • Home
  • World
    • Global Economy
    • UK
    • US
    • China
    • Africa
    • Asia Pacific
    • Emerging Markets
    • Europe
    • War in Ukraine
    • Americas
    • Middle East & North Africa
    • Australia & NZ
  • US
    • US Economy
    • US Companies
    • US Politics & Policy
  • Companies
    • Energy
    • Financials
    • Health
    • Industrials
    • Media
    • Professional Services
    • Retail & Consumer
    • Tech Sector
    • Telecoms
    • Transport
  • Tech
  • Markets
    • Alphaville
    • Markets Data
    • Capital Markets
    • Commodities
    • Currencies
    • Equities
    • Fund Management
    • Trading
    • Moral Money
    • ETF Hub
    • Cryptocurrencies
  • Climate
  • Opinion
    • Columnists
    • The FT View
    • The Big Read
    • Lex
    • Obituaries
    • Letters
  • Work & Careers
    • Business School Rankings
    • Business Education
    • Entrepreneurship
    • Recruitment
    • Business Books
    • Business Travel
  • Life & Arts
    • Arts
    • Books
    • Food & Drink
    • FT Magazine
    • House & Home
    • Style
    • Travel
    • FT Globetrotter
  • Personal Finance
    • Property & Mortgages
    • Investments
    • Pensions
    • Tax
    • Banking & Savings
    • Advice & Comment
    • Next Act
  • How to Spend It
  • Special Reports
  • FT recommends
  • Lex
  • Alphaville
  • Lunch with the FT
  • FT Globetrotter
  • #techAsia
  • Moral Money
  • FTfm
  • Newsletters
  • Video
  • Podcasts
  • News feed
  • FT Community
    • FT Live
    • FT Forums
    • Board Director Programme
  • myFT
  • Portfolio
  • Today's Newspaper (ePaper)
  • Crossword
  • Our Apps
  • Help Centre
  • Subscribe
  • Sign In