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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

    • 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
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      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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