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  • Tuesday, 17 September, 2024
    Review
    Musikfest Berlin kicks off capital’s season with mesmerising and inventive works

    The Berliner Philharmoniker played Brucker and Rihm while Ensemble Modern offered Ruth Crawford Seeger

    A man in a black jacket with an eagle-ish countenance conducting the strings
  • Monday, 16 September, 2024
    Review
    Michael Tilson Thomas brings dazzling colours to Mahler with the New York Philharmonic

    The conductor and pianist Emanuel Ax found new things in familiar works at the Lincoln Center’s David Geffen Hall

    An older man in a loose black shirt holds his arms up as he conducts
  • Sunday, 15 September, 2024
    Review
    Jack White makes rock great again even while suing Donald Trump

    Nuggets from new album ‘No Name’ were mixed with muscular White Stripes classics at London’s Islington Assembly Hall

    A man with shaggy hair holds up a guitar on a crowded stage lit blue
  • Sunday, 15 September, 2024
    Review
    Last Night of the Proms — underwhelming concert caps successful season

    Soprano Angel Blue and pianist Stephen Hough were the soloists at the tradition-filled evening

    A woman in a silve lamé dress takes a bow at the front of a smiling orchestra
  • Sunday, 15 September, 2024
    The Life of a Song
    Walk On By — Dionne Warwick put her stamp on a story of heartbreak

    Bacharach and David’s 1964 song was widely covered — including an extraordinary version by Isaac Hayes

    A female singer sings smilingly into a microphone
  • Saturday, 14 September, 2024
    Andy Haldane
    What Taylor Swift and Oasis can teach us about the economy

    The music industry’s shift from product to performance foreshadows a widespread move towards intangible assets

  • Friday, 13 September, 2024
    Sony Music Entertainment Inc
    Pink Floyd in talks with Sony over music rights sale

    Differences between band members have made reaching agreement more difficult

    A black and white image of the band members staring into the camera
  • Friday, 13 September, 2024
    ReviewAlbums
    Nilüfer Yanya: My Method Actor — sinuous music with sly songwriting

    The Londoner sings with murmured vocals about opaque scenarios in a thoughtful, interestingly cryptic new record

    A young woman with curly light brown hair wearing a white halter top looks serious
  • Friday, 13 September, 2024
    ReviewAlbums
    Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis celebrates Max Roach centennial

    The virtuoso drummer’s political activism is captured on a gripping set of compositions from the 1950s and ’60s

    A man in a black suit laughs holding a mic as he stands behind a drum kit
  • Friday, 13 September, 2024
    ReviewAlbums
    Jonas Kaufmann duets with star sopranos on new album dedicated to Puccini

    The tenor offers high drama and romance on ‘Puccini: Love Affairs’

    A man with thick dark hair and a salt and pepper beard caught mid-note
  • Thursday, 12 September, 2024
    ReviewAlbums
    Floating Points: Cascade — cerebral, kinetic dance music

    Build-ups, peaks and drops are used with unerring skill on the producer’s latest record

    A man with round brown glasses stares
  • Thursday, 12 September, 2024
    Review
    Antonio Pappano opens LSO tenure with exceptional Sibelius and a MacMillan premiere

    The conductor took his new ensemble through a dementedly uproarious concerto

    Conductor in a black shirt in concert, surrounded by members of the violin section
  • Thursday, 12 September, 2024
    Travel
    Postcard from Turkey: a floating retreat for wannabe guitar heroes

    Forget hours of lonely practice at home — a week-long, expert-led gulet cruise offers a more sociable route to six-string success

  • Wednesday, 11 September, 2024
    US presidential election 2024
    Taylor Swift endorses Kamala Harris as ‘steady-handed’ leader

    Pop star says Donald Trump’s sharing of ‘misinformation’ about her support spurred her to go public

    Taylor Swift’s Instagram post endorsing Kamala Harris
  • Monday, 9 September, 2024
    Review
    One-man Marriage of Figaro has strong singing and screwball energy

    Anthony Roth Costanzo tirelessly takes all the parts in a gender-bending reimagining of Mozart’s classic opera staged in New York

    A man wears a beautiful floral dress over a white shirt and holds his arms out as he sings while a man in a black boiler suit measures him
  • Monday, 9 September, 2024
    Review
    Le nozze di Figaro, Royal Opera House — delightful debut from Ying Fang

    Also reviewed: ‘La traviata’ has a worthy central trio in Richard Eyre’s 30-year-old production

    A woman in a blue 18th-century dress with full skirt smiles as she puts on a white veil and is about to be embraced by a smiling man in a waistcoat
  • Monday, 9 September, 2024
    Review
    Five stars for Simon Rattle’s Mahler at the Proms

    He brought his new band, the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, for Adès and Bruckner too

    A man with long curly white hair conducts an orchestra with a baton, energetically
  • Monday, 9 September, 2024
    Interview
    Will Gregory: in love with the sound of synths

    The Goldfrapp keyboard player owns more than 100 synthesisers — but insists he’s not a collector

    A grey-haired man sits in a room with a keyboard and an electronic music console
  • Sunday, 8 September, 2024
    Interview
    Bass great Tony Levin on Peter Gabriel, Paul Simon and King Crimson

    From Gabriel’s ‘Sledgehammer’ to Simon’s ‘50 Ways to Leave Your Lover’, he has helped create memorable songs for 50 years

    A musician sits on a chair in his home studio space surrounded by his bass guitars
  • Saturday, 7 September, 2024
    The Life of a SongNineteen floor-filling funk and disco classics and their stories, starring James Brown, the Bee Gees and more
    Soul Makossa — Manu Dibango’s track has been called the first disco song

    The Cameroon-born saxophonist’s 1972 tune took off in a New York club and became the most sampled African record ever

    A man with a saxophone hanging from his neck sings into a microphone
  • Friday, 6 September, 2024
    The FT ViewThe editorial board
    Fans look back in anger on dynamic pricing

    The practice is legitimate — but Oasis affair shows sellers must use it with care

    An Oasis fan walks past a new mural in Manchester  depicting Liam and Noel Gallagher of Oasis
  • Friday, 6 September, 2024
    Due Diligence
    The ticketing giant that stole the show from Oasis Premium content

    Plus, CVC has first financial report since its IPO and the Wall Street titans that made a killing on the Verizon-Frontier deal

    A montage of Liam and Noel Gallagher and a ticketing app on a mobile phone
  • Friday, 6 September, 2024
    FT MagazineRobert Shrimsley
    Ask Shrimsley: Can you spare me your Oasis ticket stories?

    It’s definitely, maybe unacceptable to go on about it

  • Friday, 6 September, 2024
    Interview
    FKA Twigs is bringing self-improvement to Sotheby’s

    The singer-songwriter’s performance ‘The Eleven’ at the auction house involves ritual movements to salve modern problems

    A woman with long elaborate curled earrings
  • Thursday, 5 September, 2024
    ReviewAlbums
    David Gilmour: Luck and Strange — age and mortality on rare album from Pink Floyd guitarist

    The songcraft struggles to match the expressiveness of his playing

    An older man with a light grey beard looks heavily at the camera
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