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Katy B, Koko, London
There were no vocal pyrotechnics but her singing was unforced and authentic, an apt register for diaristic songs about nights out and relationships
Lessons from the death of Kurt Cobain
The Nirvana frontman’s suicide 20 years ago has much to teach us about America’s way of failure
Nash Ensemble, Wigmore Hall, London
This 80th birthday concert included great new work by Birtwistle
Drake, O2 Arena, London
The Toronto rapper delivered a focused if solipsistic performance
Maya Beiser: All Vows, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco
The cellist exhibited stunning technique and musical instincts
Arthur, La Monnaie, Brussels
Peter Verhelst’s new libretto moves the action of the 1961 piece to the apocalyptic wasteland of a Flemish battlefield some time after the first world war
Everything but the solo album
The male half of Everything But The Girl talks about why it’s taken 30 years to follow up his debut
Alexander Hawkins/Wolfram Trio, Vortex, London
A double bill of avant-garde jazz from the UK and Norway
A Coffin in Egypt, Houston Grand Opera
Frederica von Stade returns in a gentle and reflective new opera
Organ launch concert, Royal Festival Hall, London
A new piece by Peter Maxwell Davies marked the occasion
The Commission/Café Kafka, Linbury Studio Theatre, London
Two new operas of admirable originality and scale of ambition
Larry Willis & Albert Sanz, Pizza Express Jazz Club Soho, London – review
A festival of piano jazz got off to a soulful and swinging start
IQ/Schau lange in den dunklen Himmel, Maerzmusik Berlin
Enno Poppe’s ‘IQ’ is a whacky critique of intelligence testing
San Francisco SO/Michael Tilson Thomas, Royal Festival Hall, London
The ensemble was technically proficient but lacking engagement
Bombay Bicycle Club, Brixton Academy, London
The indie quartet showed off their intricate, intelligent music
Die Frau ohne Schatten, Royal Opera House, London
A Freudian interpretation of Richard Strauss’s biggest opera
Electronica’s quiet hero
The first London retrospective celebrates the influential French electronic composer
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