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
Books & arts
15 July 2021
For singer-songwriter Martha Marlow, “your life experiences become your palette”
Books & arts
11 June 2021
Sinéad O’Connor eschews the notion that art can be “too personal”
Books & arts
8 June 2021
Music is key to the mystery of ABC TV’s Wakefield
Books & arts
14 May 2021
Who exactly were the New Romantics?
Essays & reportage
8 April 2021
Although his music is commonly divided into three distinct periods, the unique voice of the twentieth century’s most famous composer always rings true
Books & arts
15 March 2021
Music | As the noise returns to our lives, sounds rarely heard are disappearing again
Books & arts
19 February 2021
Chick Corea’s remarkable musical output emerged from a welter of seeming contradictions
Books & arts
9 February 2021
Music | Art might not change the world, but it can help us see it differently
Books & arts
9 December 2020
Music | Dynasties, traditions and the trailblazing teacher-performer Nadia Boulanger
From the archive
19 November 2020
Music | A new set of early recordings reveals again a singer-songwriter in a class of her own
Books & arts
4 October 2020
Music | Mahan Esfahani wants to rescue the harpsichord from history
Books & arts
9 September 2020
Music | Zelig-like, sitarist Ravi Shankar became a global celebrity
Books & arts
14 August 2020
Music | Composer, performer, listener: is the distinction always an easy one?
Summer season
3 July 2020
Music | Bob Dylan’s new album settles the debate triggered by his Nobel Prize
Books & arts
5 June 2020
One country, two very different songs