Music + Live music reviews
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Getting together to have some fun with other people’s songs, the folk-soul pairing made soft-rock magic out of silken harmonies
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The subtly nuanced period performance under Nicholas Cleobury was deliberately at odds with this often uncomfortable update by Mid Wales Opera
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ENO’s surefooted return for Leigh’s 2015 Gilbert and Sullivan production has a cast richly decked with boastful pirates and a proto-Wagnerian police chief
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The Croydon teenager proves she belongs in the big time, mixing bouncy R&B with darker shades of Lana Del Rey
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Yvonne Howard and James Rutherford brought steely power to the mystical chamber opera Sāvitri, though a fierce Planets suite lacked depth
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Newcomers Brian Jagde and Ksenia Dudnikova were superb in this revival of David McVicar’s striking production
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In an all-Spanish programme, soloist Mahan Esfahani negotiated the mood swings and disruptive rhythms of Francisco Coll’s new harpsichord concerto
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This revival of Jonathan Miller’s iconic New York mafiosi staging is as dramatic and complex as ever, even if the orchestra could usefully turn it down a little
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Bold video projections evoke an online forest where two youngsters find danger, in Opera North’s imaginative Engelbert Humperdinck revival
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Two big musical personalities celebrated Indian independence in hurried east-meets-west scratch project, rescued by Glennie and Gurtu’s conviviality and skill
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The Russian piano virtuoso occupied the spotlight without flaunting his brilliance, though Petrenko and the Liverpool orchestra could have brought more drama
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The pianist eschewed grandstanding and foregrounded Schumann’s intimacies and introspection in a programme that also included Liszt, Mozart and Kurtág
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The Afro-Cuban collective deliver their unique brand of folk fusion while barely breaking a sweat
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The Canadian star crams an impressive number of hits into his Boy Meets World show, which undulates and shimmers like a spectacular art installation
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The US singer-songwriter stripped back her sound for an evening of tender, affecting storytelling
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BBC Total Immersion Day: Philip Glass at 80 review – variety, sheer difficulty and lots of arpeggios
Marin Alsop, the BBC Singers and others wished Glass a happy 80th with a career-spanning programme of his best and most challenging work
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The masters of metal are grinding their way through a long, thrillingly loud farewell tour. Though Ozzy Osbourne may have other plans…
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Opera North delivers folklore in a factory in a rare staging of Rimsky-Korsakov’s The Snow Maiden
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Peter Bellamy’s 1977 ballad opera is expanded into a stunning, fully staged folk suite featuring the Young’uns, Nancy Kerr, Faustus and Rachael McShane
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The Philadelphian punks returned to the city with an altered lineup but plenty of rousing melodies and trademark fist-pumping life affirmation
LSO/Wilson review – Turnage trumpet concerto pushes soloist to limits