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Fiona Maddocks
Ralph Fiennes takes on Tchaikovsky in his deft opera debut
Sat 7 Feb 2026
Lily Isaacs
Playlist of the week: the best of Bad Bunny
Fri 6 Feb 2026
Jude Rogers
Suede’s renaissance years
Fri 6 Feb 2026
Kitty Empire
When protest came to the Grammys
Mon 2 Feb 2026
Albums of the week: Tyler Ballgame, Sébastien Tellier, Annabelle Chairlegs, Airelle Besson & Lionel Suarez
Sun 1 Feb 2026
Stephen Pritchard
Julia Wolfe’s unEarth: an oratorio by the voices of the future
Sat 31 Jan 2026
Kitty Empire
Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy is keeping the faith
Fri 30 Jan 2026
Joanna Moorhead
The latest radical improvisation at Ronnie Scott’s: classical music
Fri 30 Jan 2026
Phoebe Davis
Playlist of the week: the best Grammy winners
Thu 29 Jan 2026
Albums of the week: Lucinda Williams, Samm Henshaw, Searows, Joel Ross
Sun 25 Jan 2026
Stephen Pritchard
The Fourth Choir brings James Joyce’s The Dead to life
Sun 25 Jan 2026
Kitty Empire
The rise and rise of Dijon
Fri 23 Jan 2026
Caitlin Macdonald
Playlist of the week: songs for Burns Night
Thu 22 Jan 2026
Albums of the week: Sault, Madison Beer, Courtney Marie Andrews, Lucy Mellenfield
Sun 18 Jan 2026
Fiona Maddocks
Is Lise Davidsen the soprano of the century?
Fri 16 Jan 2026
Kitty Empire
Robbie Williams still wishes he was Britpop
Fri 16 Jan 2026
Lily Isaacs
Playlist of the week: the sound of 2016
Fri 16 Jan 2026
Fiona Maddocks
Home listening: the latest classical releases
Sun 11 Jan 2026
Karl Fallon
Jamie Wilkins is not your normal composer
Sun 11 Jan 2026
Albums of the week: Robert Stillman, The Cribs, Jenny on Holiday, Kris Davis and the Lutosławski String Quartet
Sun 11 Jan 2026
Fiona Maddocks
Alfred Brendel: a Musical Celebration – a night to remember
Fri 9 Jan 2026
Kitty Empire
Dry Cleaning’s Secret Love is a work of everyday poetry
Fri 9 Jan 2026
Kitty Empire
Playlist of the week: acts to watch out for in 2026
Thu 8 Jan 2026
Deborah Levy
‘Reality was so dull. Bowie gave us glitter and stardust’
Thu 8 Jan 2026
Fiona Maddocks
The best of classical in 2026
Thu 1 Jan 2026
Kitty Empire
The albums and tours to look out for in 2026
Thu 1 Jan 2026
Kitty Empire
The best albums of 2025
Thu 25 Dec 2025
Fiona Maddocks
The best classical of 2025
Thu 25 Dec 2025
Miranda Sawyer
Miranda Sawyer’s year of gigs with her daughter
Tue 23 Dec 2025
The hidden gem albums of 2025
Sun 21 Dec 2025
Stephen Pritchard
Inside the Beethovenhalle Bonn’s £200m renovation
Sun 21 Dec 2025
Fiona Maddocks
A memorable Messiah, with King Charles in the house
Sun 21 Dec 2025
Xavier Greenwood
Lucky, lucky, lucky! After 37 years Kylie lands her first UK Christmas No 1
Sun 21 Dec 2025
Kitty Empire
Are Stereolab better than ever?
Sat 20 Dec 2025
Fiona Maddocks
Playlist of the week: songs for midwinter
Thu 18 Dec 2025
Albums of the week: Isobel Waller-Bridge, Fred again, Threetwenty. Plus, the EsDeeKid mystery
Sun 14 Dec 2025
Fiona Maddocks
The Kurt Cobain opera is hallucinogenic
Sat 13 Dec 2025
Kitty Empire
Jacob Alon and the art of restraint
Fri 12 Dec 2025
Kitty Empire
Playlist of the week: tracks of the century
Thu 11 Dec 2025
Kitty Empire
The 25 best albums of the century so far
Thu 11 Dec 2025
Fiona Maddocks
The RCM’s Cunning Little Vixen is beguiling
Tue 9 Dec 2025
Albums of the week: Dove Ellis, Melody’s Echo Chamber and more
Sun 7 Dec 2025
Fiona Maddocks
Home listening: the best Christmas classical releases
Sun 7 Dec 2025
Miranda Sawyer
Playlist of the week: the best children’s songs
Thu 4 Dec 2025
Kitty Empire
Cameron Winter: the voice of a new generation
Thu 4 Dec 2025
Fiona Maddocks
Vive la farce: Handel’s Partenope returns to ENO
Sun 30 Nov 2025
Albums of the week: The Bug vs Ghost Dubs, Jerkcurb, Stray Kids, Manizeh
Sat 29 Nov 2025
Fiona Maddocks
Vive la farce: Handel’s Partenope returns to ENO
Sat 29 Nov 2025
Kitty Empire
How My Bloody Valentine became an arena band
Fri 28 Nov 2025
Tom Gatti
Playlist of the week: the best Radiohead covers
Wed 26 Nov 2025
Albums of the week: Oneohtrix Point Never, De La Soul, Ella Eyre, Snarky Puppy & Metropole Orkest
Sun 23 Nov 2025
Stephen Pritchard
A lament for lost birds
Sun 23 Nov 2025
Finn Blythe
The place where music history is made
Sun 23 Nov 2025
Kitty Empire
Greatest hits Radiohead reunion is a shape-shifting joy
Sat 22 Nov 2025
Kitty Empire
Lorde rewrites the rules of the arena-pop gig
Wed 19 Nov 2025
Albums of the week: FKA Twigs, Celeste, D-Block Europe, Sarathy Korwar
Sun 16 Nov 2025
Stephen Pritchard
Cross-Channel harmony at the London Festival of Baroque Music
Sun 16 Nov 2025
Kitty Empire
Joy Crookes’s quiet courage
Fri 14 Nov 2025
Fiona Maddocks
A radical reworking of The Makropulos Case
Sat 8 Nov 2025
Albums of the week: Armand Hammer & The Alchemist, Whitney, The Belair Lip Bombs and Mavis Staples
Sat 8 Nov 2025
Kitty Empire
The passion of Rosalía
Fri 7 Nov 2025
Albums of the week: Dave, Cat Burns, The Charlatans and Makaya McCraven
Sat 1 Nov 2025
Kitty Empire
On Everybody Scream, Florence Welch is at her best
Fri 31 Oct 2025
Fiona Maddocks
Oxford International Song festival hits a note of radicalism
Thu 30 Oct 2025
Albums of the week: Tortoise, Tame Impala, Miguel, Emma Rawicz
Sun 26 Oct 2025
Kitty Empire
Lily Allen’s comeback album is the lament of a ‘nonmonogamummy’
Fri 24 Oct 2025
Fiona Maddocks
Wexford festival’s operatic rarities
Fri 24 Oct 2025
Albums of the week: Bruce Springsteen, Sudan Archives, The Last Dinner Party, Laura Jurd
Sun 19 Oct 2025
Fiona Maddocks
Benjamin Britten’s oddball masterpiece
Fri 17 Oct 2025
Kitty Empire
Patti Smith in her prime
Thu 16 Oct 2025
Reviews: The Necks, Cheikh Lô, Jay Som, Charles Lloyd
Sun 12 Oct 2025
Stephen Pritchard
Misogyny and misinformation in a 21st-century Handel
Sat 11 Oct 2025
Kitty Empire
Lady Gaga’s fever dream
Thu 9 Oct 2025
Geese, Richard Ashcroft, Marta, Jacob Collier
Fri 3 Oct 2025
Kitty Empire
Is Taylor Swift’s The Life of a Showgirl her happiest album yet?
Fri 3 Oct 2025
Robert Plant with Suzi Dian, Cardi B, Cate Le Bon, Joy Crookes, Ala.Ni
Sun 28 Sept 2025
Kitty Empire
Jim Legxacy – the rise of an unconventional rapper
Sat 27 Sept 2025
Fiona Maddocks
Garland – a horse, a car park, and a night of pure imagination
Sat 27 Sept 2025
Albums of the week: Kieran Hebden and William Tyler, Kojey Radical, Wednesday and L’Antidote
Sun 21 Sept 2025
