Harry Styles - Kiss All The Time. Disco, Occasionally | His charisma and star power remain resolutely undimmed, but this muted and downbeat album offers little immediate with which to grab the attention
Women and Power review – International Women’s Day celebrated with musical and historical fluency at Wigmore Hall | Soprano Nardus Williams, lutenist Elizabeth Kenny and classicist Mary Beard in a programme of music and readings that salutes the powerful roles of women in classical antiquity,…
LSO review – Barbara Hannigan conducts Bowler, Ligeti and Strauss at the Barbican | Laura Bowler’s devastating The White Book receives a phenomenal UK premiere, while Hannigan and the LSO bring Ligeti and Strauss vividly to life
Titus L’Empereur review – Leo Duarte and Opera Settecento at the London Handel Festival | A Handel opera ‘written’ in the 21st century at St George’s, Hanover Square!
Philharmonia review – Santtu conducts Bernstein, Dove, Copland and Gershwin | A suite of film music, a brace of clarinet concerti and a concert staple make up this tribute concert to clarinettist Mark van de Wiel at Southbank Centre
Squeeze - Trixies | This concept album, conceived in the '70s, presents the sound of one of the best bands in Britain who have reached the early morning hours and are ready to go again
Bonnie Prince Billy – We Are Together Again | Will Oldham continues to forge new paths on latest release, balancing longstanding tropes with a sense of community and connection
Andrew Wasylyk - Irreparable Parables | Scottish composer-musician embraces the human voice on ninth album, broadening his sound with confidence and conviction
Preview – Glyndebourne's 2026 season mixes the old with the new | Shake off the winter blues with glorious music in East Sussex
Preview – Longborough Festival Opera’s 2026 season includes everything from Handel to Wagner | An eclectic mix from the venue described as the ‘Bayreuth of the Cotswolds’
Gorillaz - The Mountain | By some distance their most ambitious album yet, this multilayered musical tour de force brings meaningful strands of hope to death, chaos and delirium
Heavenly - Highway To Heavenly | A triumphant return, 30 years on, for a band whose values of tolerance, empathy and quiet determination seem more vital than ever
Owen Wingrave review – Britten’s ‘television opera’ at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama | An insightful production and some excellent performances
Willows review – Pekka Kuusisto and Sam Amidon at Kings Place | An unlikely duo team up with members of Norwegian Chamber Orchestra in a live version of their recent joint album
Mitski - Nothing's About To Happen To Me | Her eighth album is one that only she could make: strange, otherworldly and yet immediately accessible and addictive
Iron & Wine – Hen’s Teeth | The delicate, technicolour tracks on Sam Beam’s eighth album see him consolidate his reputation as a songwriter of distinction
Preview – Opera Holland Park’s 2026 season promises variety in abundance A wide range of events at the festival Londoners can find on their doorstep
Bill Callahan - My Days Of 58 | Eighth album from former Smog man finds him sharing personal reflections and stories in customary understated, unhurried style
Iron & Wine interview – “I’m trying to create a little spell, trying to experience something out of time” | Sam Beam talks us through his latest album Hen’s Teeth, his love of collaboration and his approach to lyric writing
Peaches - No Lube So Rude | Underneath all the references to rampant sex and general debauchery, there's a beating heart at the centre of Merrill Nisker's exhilarating, essential work
Apparat - A Hum Of Maybe | Having in recent years experienced intense writer's block, Sascha Ring is here back to his fluent best
Moby - Future Quiet | Regenerating his introverted side, this straight-from-the-heart outing offers private musical ambience to soothe and console
Sébastien Tellier - Kiss The Beast | Six years on from his last artist album Domesticated, one of the finest French songsmiths around returns - with some surprise guest turns
Saul review – a regal opening to The London Handel Festival | Handel’s lavish oratorio at Sinfonia Smith Square makes a fitting beginning to six weeks of exciting performances
Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny review – English National Opera’s production makes its point, then makes it again | Rosie Aldridge and Simon O’Neill shine, and André de Ridder conducts superbly, but Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht’s satire outstays its welcome at the Coliseum
Preview – Henley Festival 2026 | A brief tour of the line-up for this year’s “only black-tie music and arts festival”
Concerto Italiano review – Monteverdi’s “That’s Amore” at Wigmore Hall | Rinaldo Alessandrini directs Concerto Italiano in a selection of Monteverdi’s madrigals and canti amorosi for a historically highbrow celebration of St Valentine’s Day
Peter Grimes review – apprenticeship can be a dangerous occupation | Opera North brings the fishing community of The Borough to Leeds in Benjamin Britten's tragic tale
