Category: Music
-
Nikolaj Szeps-Znaider and the Violin That Once Belonged to Fritz Kreisler
The Danish violinist and conductor returns to Copenhagen’s Royal Danish Theatre on 23 November with Schubert, Grieg and Kreisler — performing on the very instrument Kreisler used to premiere Elgar’s Violin Concerto in 1910. On 10 November 1910, Fritz Kreisler gave the first performance of Edward Elgar’s Violin Concerto at London’s Queen’s Hall, with the…
-
MESHELL NDEGEOCELLO: MAKING A SONG YOUR OWN
What happens when we change the voices in a love song? On Synonym, released on 2 October 2026, Meshell Ndegeocello revisits fifteen familiar recordings with an extraordinary cast of collaborators, from Chaka Khan and Cat Power to ANOHNI, Cynthia Erivo and Bill Callahan. The results move between intimate soul, reggae, country, experimental jazz and electronic…
-
Gram Parsons
Gram Parsons had a vision so clear and so premature that the music world spent the decade after his death catching up to it, and has spent the five decades since trying to fully reckon with what he did in the four years he was actually making records. He called it Cosmic American Music —…
-
FINE: LEAVING THINGS UNSAID
With Jazz Dreams, released on 23 October 2026, Danish singer, songwriter and producer Fine Glindvad Jensen has made one of the year’s most beguiling records. Moving effortlessly between country, dream pop, jazz, soft rock and experimental production, the album sounds strangely familiar without ever settling into a recognisable style. Its achievement is not simply musical…
-
Sinatra at the Sands turns 60
Frank Sinatra, Count Basie and Quincy Jones. Three extraordinary musical minds, one legendary Las Vegas engagement, and a live album that captures American popular music at its most exhilarating. Sixty years after its original release, a remarkable new anniversary edition reminds us why Sinatra at the Sands remains one of the greatest live recordings ever…
-
GOD SAVE THE QUEENS: THE WOMEN WHO INVENTED PUNK’S FUTURE
Fifty years after punk erupted into British cultural life, a landmark exhibition at London’s Museum of Youth Culture challenges one of popular music’s most persistent historical distortions. Through previously unseen archives, photography, fashion and fine art, God Save the Queens restores the women who shaped punk to their rightful place: not at the margins of…
-
MARINA HERLOP: MUSIC THAT REFUSES TO BECOME CONTENT
With Dja Dja, released on 9 October 2026, Catalan composer Marina Herlop has produced one of the year’s most adventurous albums: a dazzling, occasionally bewildering collision of classical composition, experimental electronics, invented languages and Balinese gamelan. Three years in the making, it arrives with an unusually pointed argument about the state of contemporary music. At…
-
What’s So Special About the Romantic Piano?
The piano is the most democratic and the most intimate instrument in the history of Western music — democratic because it found its way into the parlours and drawing rooms of the emerging middle classes, intimate because it is the one instrument on which a single person, alone, can produce a complete musical world without…
-
What’s So Special About New Order
New Order made the most unlikely record in the history of popular music. Three people whose previous band had defined the outer limits of post-industrial English despair, whose singer had hanged himself eight months before the recording sessions began, whose entire artistic identity had been built on darkness and weight and the refusal of consolation…
-
What’s So Special About Joy Division
By Bergotte Joy Division made two studio albums and a handful of singles between 1978 and 1980, and their singer Ian Curtis hanged himself in his kitchen in Macclesfield on the eve of the band’s first American tour, at the age of twenty-three. It would be easy — it has been easy, for forty years…
