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This year’s festival gets under way as planned with two contrasting productions: Katya Kabanova and Il turco in Italia
The singer confessed he didn’t know what it was about — but that didn’t prevent it from being widely covered, and sung
The Live at Worthy Farm festival stream offered a rainy but musically varied and visually striking evening
The Armed and Chubby and the Gang have emerged into the mainstream music scene as if to meet a public demand for catharsis in a chaotic world
From bone flutes to electronica, Mozart to Stormzy: Nicholas Kenyon and Michael Spitzer take two anthropological journeys into sound
Impeccably poised beats stand out in the singer’s immaculate second album
The artist is from a generation of Tuareg musicians inspired by desert blues pioneers
Contradictory tones come off as indecisiveness in the rock duo’s latest album
The saxophonist’s follow-up album blends pulsing Gwoka tradition with sonic twists
Conducted by Antonio Pappano, this take on the composer’s ‘Ein Heldenleben’ has a bold swagger
Turkish and Greek influences combine to assert unity in the divided Cypriot city
An Apple TV Plus series features performances by John Lennon, Tina Turner and David Bowie at a time of war, political upheaval and social change
The company’s first full-scale production in more than a year brings a cast of vividly drawn characters to Mozart’s work
After a faltering start, Jerome Kern and Otto Harbach’s song has been a smouldering success
The quartet’s fourth album explores different experiences of black identity, culture and history
These tracks have an eager, zesty feel and explore the creative potential of brevity
The American singer-songwriter draws on experience to deliver an ambitious sixth album
After an extended hiatus, the Johannesburg group return with a hypnotic album of impressive collaborations
Expressive performances from an excellent cast do justice to the composer’s strongest opera
The band’s collective energy shines in this recording session full of enticing rhythms and swirls of synth
A trio of books try to capture the conflict between trickster and soothsayer embodied in the ‘voice of a generation’
A new BBC drama-documentary about the sonic composer makes clear electronic music’s debt to its female pioneers
New streamed performances from the LSO, ETO and Los Angeles Opera are modest in scale but memorable
Released in 1976, the track that emerged from a piano doodle has stood the test of time
The pandemic has accelerated the trend among musicians to reach audiences via video games
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