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Walthamstow Garden Party review – glorious sets from world music's finest
Fatoumata Diawara, Dona Onete and Seun Kuti gave a powerful demonstration of their musical skills on the Barbican-curated stage
Read more » | Desktop version »Juliana review - Miss Julie reworking makes for a convincing, effective new opera
Joseph Phibbs and Laurie Slade’s spare and coherent chamber opera updates Strindberg’s claustrophobic three-hander to the present day, with Cheryl Enever compelling in the title role
Read more » | Desktop version »VMAs 2018: Cardi B, Beyoncé and Jay-Z lead nominees
In the gender-neutral categories, the breakout rapper has scored 10 nominations with ‘The Carters’ and Childish Gambino following
Read more » | Desktop version »Camilla Kurti obituary
Other lives: Violin-maker, singer, activist and linguist
Read more » | Desktop version »Letters: Oliver Knussen’s music was supremely ordered
Meirion Bowen writes: The house that Oliver Knussen had at Snape was once described on Radio 3 as chaotic
Read more » | Desktop version »Latitude festival – teenage fans bring energy to middle-class kingdom
Big names like the Killers, alt-J and a surprise Liam Gallagher flounder, but there’s buried treasure from Nao, IAMDDB and Octavian lower down the bill
Read more » | Desktop version »Lovebox review – Childish Gambino leads diverse corrective to Trump visit
While SZA was delayed by the Trump protests, other artists were energised – including Childish Gambino, who scaled up his music to unprecedented size
Read more » | Desktop version »Songs in the key of strife: the musician putting anxiety centrestage
Keaton Henson, who suffers from depression, has teamed up with a ‘rollercoaster thrill engineer’ to create a unique musical experiment. And they’ve hooked the audience up to the lighting to monitor their response
Read more » | Desktop version »Isabeau review – Anne Sophie Duprels soars as Mascagni's neglected heroine
Exciting singing and Francesco Cilluffo’s terrific conducting power this rarely seen variation on the Lady Godiva legend
Read more » | Desktop version »Eminem review – the rap god struggles to generate energy
Throbbing with deviant vitality, the music is as electric as ever but Marshall Mathers’ onstage persona is a long way from his chainsaw-wielding day
Read more » | Desktop version »John Horler: Free and Easy review – delights from Bach to Basie
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Read more » | Desktop version »Dirty Projectors: Lamp Lit Prose review – brighter, brassier, more free-flowing
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