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    • Monday, 6 February, 2023
      Review
      Ant Law, 606 Club — A-list band support the sideman turned headliner

      The guitarist’s new project, Unified Theories, is a marvel of clever construction

    • Monday, 6 February, 2023
      Life of a Song
      Sloop John B — the story behind The Beach Boys’ hit runs deep

      Traces of this song from the Bahamas go back to the turn of the 20th century

    • Saturday, 4 February, 2023
      Interview
      Composer Anna Clyne: ‘Music with melody connects with something very deeply rooted in us’

      Her kaleidoscopic work has drawn on Emily Dickinson and London parks and has now inspired a new dance at the Royal Opera House

    • Saturday, 4 February, 2023
      ObituaryBarrett Strong
      Barrett Strong, songwriter and musician, 1941-2023

      The Motown legend wrote many hits and was credited with making his label more socially aware

    • Friday, 3 February, 2023
      Review
      Best new album releases of the week
    • Friday, 3 February, 2023
      Best new album releases of the week
      Shania Twain: Queen of Me — country-pop star returns with attempted rebrand

      Toes curl and Gen Z slang is mangled as the Canadian singer attempts a pop makeover in her sixth album

    • Friday, 3 February, 2023
      Best new album releases of the week
      Five stars for Raye’s exhilarating debut My 21st Century Blues

      Having broken free from Polydor, the Londoner takes aim at the music industry with dramatic songs and versatile vocals

    • Friday, 3 February, 2023
      Best new album releases of the week
      Stephen Hough brings exquisite playing to Mompou’s Música callada

      Precision and crystalline sound quality pay dividends in these piano miniatures

    • Friday, 3 February, 2023
      Best new album releases of the week
      Joe Chambers: Dance Kobina — a compelling showcase for the edgy drummer

      Multiple tracking allows the drummer’s vibraphone playing to come across sharply

    • Thursday, 2 February, 2023
      Interview
      Singer Weyes Blood: ‘I’m very typical in fetishising the past. It’s a millennial thing’

      The Californian was a punk prophet of doom in her youth — now she makes music that evokes 1970s Laurel Canyon

    • Thursday, 2 February, 2023
      Review
      Carmen, English National Opera — red-hot revival with fiery singing

      Plus: Tannhäuser at the Royal Opera House with a stand-in lead but no standout ideas

    • Tuesday, 31 January, 2023
      Review
      Simon Boccanegra, Deutsche Oper Berlin — politics and poisoning in Verdi’s dark thriller

      The capable cast fail to redeem Vasily Barkhatov’s lacklustre new production

    • 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
      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
      ReviewAlbums
      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
      ReviewAlbums
      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

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