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  • Friday, 22 January, 2021
    ReviewAlbums
    Oculi Ensemble: Strauss’s Metamorphosen — a fine blend of sound

    This seductive disc brings the composer’s rarely played chamber works alongside a late masterpiece

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  • Friday, 22 January, 2021
    ReviewAlbums
    Bicep flex broader dynamics and a globalised style on Isles

    The Belfast duo expand their sweeping brand of dance music in a new album

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  • Thursday, 21 January, 2021
    Hipgnosis Songs Fund
    The music keeps on playing at Hipgnosis

    The acquisitive song royalty fund shows no sign of shifting tempo.

  • Thursday, 21 January, 2021
    Review
    Biden inauguration concert brings pop pizzazz back to Washington DC

    Katy Perry, Bruce Springsteen and John Legend were among the highlights of a show that invoked sunshine and dawn

  • Thursday, 21 January, 2021
    Hipgnosis Songs Fund
    Hipgnosis issues new shares to fuel music rights buying spree

    London-listed group also scoops up Metallica producer’s catalogue as frenetic pace of acquisitions continues

  • Tuesday, 19 January, 2021
    ReviewNon-Fiction
    Dolly Parton: no ‘Backwoods Barbie’

    How the singer’s seemingly irresistible rags-to-rhinestones story masks a life of ‘lived feminism’

  • Tuesday, 19 January, 2021
    Review
    James MacMillan’s Christmas Oratorio is a rich and prodigious invention

    The composer’s ecstatic, full-scale nativity choral work premieres at Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw

  • Tuesday, 19 January, 2021
    Arts
    Is multi-view streaming the future for the performing arts?

    The latest online productions offer audiences a choice of camera angles

  • Monday, 18 January, 2021
    Life of a Song
    Rumble — how Link Wray brought the sound of slashed speakers to rock guitar

    The brutal-sounding instrumental track was hugely influential

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  • Monday, 18 January, 2021
    Interview
    How Wigmore Hall is taking music beyond the chamber

    The London venue has found a large audience online during the pandemic, says its chief executive John Gilhooly

  • Friday, 15 January, 2021
    ReviewAlbums
    Shame: Drunk Tank Pink — more introspective but animated

    The London band’s second album combines themes of burnout and ennui with fast rhythms

  • Friday, 15 January, 2021
    ReviewAlbums
    Daniel Knox: Won’t You Take Me With You — richly conceived and dramatic

    The Chicagoan’s latest album sounds like a phantasmagoric score for nocturnal city strolls

  • Friday, 15 January, 2021
    Taiwan’s stunning new arts centre springs back to life

    The National Kaohsiung Center’s live concert season can bring a new focus to classical and opera in east Asia, says conductor Chien Wen-Pin

  • Friday, 15 January, 2021
    ReviewAlbums
    Urban Village: Udondolo — a love song to Soweto

    The South African four-piece pays homage to the music of their hometown in a debut album

  • Friday, 15 January, 2021
    ReviewAlbums
    Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra Septet: The Democracy! Suite — an activist musical metaphor

    Wynton Marsalis’s latest project features call-to-arms motifs and tracks inspired by protest music

  • Friday, 15 January, 2021
    ReviewAlbums
    Sleaford Mods gorge on recent UK politics and crises with Spare Ribs

    Cummings and Covid are two of the subjects touched on by the Nottingham duo as they exhibit an evolving style

  • Friday, 15 January, 2021
    ReviewAlbums
    Britten Sinfonia gives Donizetti’s Il Paria its moment in the spotlight

    The orchestra and a fine cast give the long-neglected opera an impressive first studio recording

  • Thursday, 14 January, 2021
    Mick Fleetwood goes his own way with BMG rights deal

    Fleetwood Mac catalogue the source of a third royalties deal in 6 weeks

  • Thursday, 14 January, 2021
    Music festivals face a second summer of doubt

    The UK government is confronted with a dilemma: underwrite events or face the decimation of a thriving cultural sector

  • Tuesday, 12 January, 2021
    Review
    Prototype Festival amplifies the ingenuity

    The US festival of new opera has gone largely online this year, with a programme of innovative music and visuals

  • Tuesday, 12 January, 2021
    Shining legacy of MF DOOM, the man in the metal mask

    A tribute to the innovative and influential rapper, whose death was announced on New Year’s Day

  • Monday, 11 January, 2021
    Review
    Opera companies dive back into the stream

    With live performances cancelled, English Touring Opera, Scottish Opera and Grange Park are offering online productions

  • Monday, 11 January, 2021
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    KKR joins music rights party with Ryan Tedder deal

    Private equity group takes stake in catalogue of producer who has penned hits for Beyoncé, Adele and Paul McCartney

  • Monday, 11 January, 2021
    Life of a Song
    Ain’t No Love in the Heart of the City — a soul track indelibly linked with a hair metal band

    The song first recorded by Bobby ‘Blue’ Bland in 1974 became a Whitesnake staple

  • Saturday, 9 January, 2021
    Q&AThe Inventory
    Eric Whitacre: ‘Do I believe in an afterlife? This is a three-martini question’

    The Grammy-winning composer and conductor on computer music, long baths and the importance of luck

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