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  • Monday, 8 April, 2019
    Review
    Beauty and Sadness — the world premiere of an atmospheric new opera in Hong Kong

    Elena Langer and David Pountney’s work was performed at the Lyric Theatre, Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts

  • Monday, 8 April, 2019
    Review
    An opulent night with the Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra in London

    Guest flautist Hubert Laws stunned in this performance at Milton Court

  • Monday, 8 April, 2019
    Manhattan’s new arts venue The Shed launches with a celebration in sound and vision

    The opening programme includes tributes to great black American musicians and an audiovisual collaboration, Reich Richter Pärt

  • Monday, 8 April, 2019
    Life of a Song
    Everybody Wants to Rule the World — Tears for Fears’ 1985 hit was the subject of a radical re-reading

    A song that reflected a time of fear and anxiety has enjoyed enduring popularity

  • Saturday, 6 April, 2019
    Review
    Julia Jacklin explores the silence between the lines at the Electric Brixton, London

    The Australian singer impressed with a show that was full of meaningful pauses

  • Friday, 5 April, 2019
    ReviewAlbums
    Khalid: Free Spirit

    The Texas-based singer’s second album finds him coming of age with a conventional take on romance

  • Friday, 5 April, 2019
    ReviewAlbums
    The Leisure Society: Arrivals & Departures

    After the collapse of the romantic relationship of two of the band members comes a double album exploring the wreckage

  • Friday, 5 April, 2019
    ReviewAlbums
    WH Lung: Incidental Music

    The Manchester trio make ample use of futuristic synthesisers and psychedelia on their debut album

  • Friday, 5 April, 2019
    ReviewAlbums
    Fémina: Perlas & Conchas

    The Argentine trio return with free-flowing, sun-kissed sounds on their third album

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  • Friday, 5 April, 2019
    ReviewAlbums
    Vijay Iyer & Craig Taborn: The Transitory Poems

    Eight improvised and compelling piano duets incorporate musical homages to pianists past

  • Friday, 5 April, 2019
    ReviewAlbums
    Budapest Festival Orchestra: Mahler: Symphony No. 7

    Iván Fischer brings out the vast wealth of details in the composer’s music, resulting in a recording unlike any other

  • Friday, 5 April, 2019
    Ludovic Hunter-Tilney
    The world no longer wants to learn to sing in English

    Pop fans in the Anglosphere are growing more tolerant of different languages

  • Friday, 5 April, 2019
    At Home with the FT
    James Lavelle: living with contemporary art

    Take a look around the music mogul’s London home

  • Thursday, 4 April, 2019
    Review
    Dance Hunter tells the story of folklorist Evald Tang Kristensen at the Opera House, Copenhagen

    There’s charm in a production that apparently coins a new genre, ‘documentary opera’

  • Thursday, 4 April, 2019
    FT AlphavilleJamie Powell
    The death of cultural transmission, an update

    Yep, there's a Beatles film coming out next year.

  • Thursday, 4 April, 2019
    AnalysisFT Alphaville
    The death of cultural transmission

    Do back catalogs carry the same financial aura in the digital age?

  • Thursday, 4 April, 2019
    Interview
    Cecilia Bartoli on the beguiling sound of the castrati

    Opera showstoppers are written for sopranos, so the Italian mezzo has turned to the castrato repertoire for inspiration

  • Wednesday, 3 April, 2019
    Review
    Giorgio Moroder claps along to his hits at the Eventim Apollo, London

    The great producer and songwriter was the presiding genius at this celebration of his work — though others did the heavy lifting

  • Wednesday, 3 April, 2019
    Review
    Orest — an opera of unbroken tension at the Wiener Staatsoper

    Manfred Trojahn’s work is impressively staged, and sung by a first-rate cast

  • Wednesday, 3 April, 2019
    Review
    Simon Rattle and Peter Sellars lift the St John Passion out of its comfort zone

    Rattle’s conducting and Sellars’ spartan staging raised the dramatic temperature at the Royal Festival Hall

  • Tuesday, 2 April, 2019
    Review
    Manon Lescaut at La Scala reveals Puccini’s bold intentions

    Conductor Riccardo Chailly relishes a critical edition of the score in David Pountney’s Milan production

  • Tuesday, 2 April, 2019
    Review
    Khatia Buniatishvili at the Barbican — does the playing match the charisma?

    The Georgian pianist’s recital was lavished with applause, but there were major flaws

  • Tuesday, 2 April, 2019
    The gravitational power of Drake at O2 Arena

    The Canadian rapper was a master of his own world at this London show

  • Monday, 1 April, 2019
    Review
    Jack the Ripper — English National Opera puts forgotten victims in the spotlight

    Iain Bell’s new work is hit-and-miss but its cast of veteran singers is a big draw at the London Coliseum

  • Monday, 1 April, 2019
    Life of a Song
    Gloria — Van Morrison’s song became an anthem for punky young singers

    A hit for Them in 1965, the track resonated among acts with a certain attitude and energy

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