Essays & reportage
6 November 2024
Targeted by hackers and sued by publishers, the Internet Archive continues to push boundaries
Books & arts
4 November 2024
A poem, a painting, a chance remark — almost anything can ignite the composer’s imagination
Books & arts
8 October 2024
Authenticity isn’t quite the right word for what Neal Peres Da Costa is aiming to achieve
Books & arts
10 September 2024
Composer Alexander Goehr swam against the postwar tide
Books & arts
13 August 2024
How do you pack the history of music into less than fifty thousand words?
Books & arts
8 July 2024
Despite her clean-living reputation, the great American singer was a risk taker
Books & arts
12 June 2024
The drive for musical authenticity needn’t always reach back
Books & arts
2 April 2024
In the wake of a war and the Holocaust, how should music commemorate?
Books & arts
9 February 2024
Packed with back story, a generation of TV themes showed producers to be taking music more seriously
Books & arts
15 December 2023
It’s not just slimmer royalty payments for his compositions that make our music writer look back wistfully
Books & arts
6 November 2023
The new Rolling Stones album circles back to the band’s earliest days
Essays & reportage
4 October 2023
With a new album just released and seventy years of playing under his belt, jazz pianist Mike Nock continues to perform, compose and mentor
Books & arts
27 September 2023
How pianist Paul Grabowsky benefited from the generosity of the Wilfred brothers and other Indigenous musicians
Books & arts
11 September 2023
Joni Mitchell’s Blue suffuses Amy Key’s memoir of single life
Books & arts
4 September 2023
The many lives of Noël Coward, playwright, composer, director, actor and singer
Books & arts
29 August 2023
Politics wasn’t far away when Blood, Sweat & Tears brought the house down in Romania
Books & arts
9 August 2023
The Hungarian composer György Ligeti remained endlessly inquisitive
Books & arts
10 July 2023
Singer-songwriter Lucinda Williams’s memoir is an instant classic
National affairs
5 April 2023
A capacity to enable fruitful cross-cultural interaction was among the strengths of Yolngu leader Yunupingu, who died last weekend
Books & arts
28 February 2023
Not everything famous musicians do is magic
Books & arts
3 February 2023
Does music really reflect its place of composition?
Books & arts
7 December 2022
How Doctor Who found its distinctive sounds
Books & arts
4 November 2022
A fresh musical performance can reveal unrecognised qualities
Books & arts
21 September 2022
Music played the role only it could play at the Queen’s funeral
Books & arts
7 September 2022
Pianist and composer Tim Stevens eventually returned to the jazz standards, and we have the pandemic to thank
From the archive
30 November 2021
The pleasures of eavesdropping on the Beatles with Peter Jackson
Books & arts
9 November 2021
Our minds might wander during musical performances, but does that really matter?
Books & arts
16 October 2021
Critics Christopher Ricks and Wilfrid Mellers approach music from quite different directions
Books & arts
17 September 2021
What happens when musicians play together without the cues they’ve come to expect?
Books & arts
10 August 2021
Gerald Finzi’s letters illuminate a time, a place and a composer’s mind