The English Baroque Soloists are all smiles and pure joy, plus the best of January’s classical concerts
Mellowed after 40 years, John Eliot Gardiner and his players brought playfulness to two symphonies and devastated with a Mozart concerto
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Sonny Rollins is jazz’s great survivor – but at 92 he’s still an enigma
Aidan Levy's new biography Saxophone Colossus tries to get under the skin of a brilliant, reclusive performer
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Strops, swearing and Stravinsky – what life is really like as a top female conductor
Alice Farnham’s book In Good Hands wants to show that conductors aren’t just all shouty male maestros. Then, she snaps...
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A complicated encounter with Grieg and Liszt at Wigmore Hall, plus the best of December’s classical and jazz concerts
Pianist Piers Lane creatively juxtaposed singular sonatas by the two composers with smaller pieces by each of them – but with mixed results
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A searing piece of English anti-fascism, plus the best of November’s classical and jazz concerts
A Child of Our Time, Michael Tippett’s dark indictment of Nazi inhumanity, was excellently delivered by the LPO, Edward Gardner and singers
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How the West handed classical music over to China – and may not get it back
While the artform is throttled here by penny-pinching and ideological resentment, it is flourishing in the Far East
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November 2022’s best classical music CDs: Bramwell Tovey conducts Poulenc, Yo-Yo Ma plays Beethoven
Our critic picks the month's best classical releases, including Emanuel Ax, Leonidas Kavakos and Yo-Yo Ma's all-star Beethoven for Three
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Festival of Remembrance, Royal Albert Hall, review: sorrow and dignity at the heart of this moving occasion
This year’s poignant ceremony – which celebrated soldiers and paid tribute to the late Queen – highlights the virtues of service and loyalty
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La Traviata review: Maggio Musicale Fiorentino transports Verdi to the Swinging Sixties
Moving Verdi's opera to a luxuriant yet sleazy hotel, this production showed how little sexual mores had changed since Verdi's day
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Phoenix haunt the Louvre, Sault offer songs to God – the week’s best albums
This week’s slate includes a jazz collective who nod to Thelonius Monk and a five-album release from Britain’s most enigmatic group
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A majestic Verdi’s Requiem in suitably majestic surroundings, plus the best of October’s classical concerts
Marking the conclusion of this year’s much-vaunted Ryedale Festival, Mark Elder and the Hallé rose to the piece's challenges at York Minster
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We’ve reached peak Beatles, Tom Odell is a triumph – the week’s best albums
A Beatles album is re-released, Fred Again evokes London streets at 3am while Yung Gravy sounds like he was cooked up in a TikTok lab
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Why listening to melancholic music can cure the blues
A new show explores the curiously addictive affliction to which so many artists have been drawn
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Why the Arts Council should be abolished
The funding body is hopelessly in thrall to ideological fads and nonsensical goals
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The sleazy, intoxicating world of Berg, plus the best recent classical CDs
The best new releases, from violinist Plamena Nikitassova's thrilling Biber sonatas to an ambitious double-album from pianist Igor Levit
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Keith Jarrett says farewell, Björk has a romantic reawakening – the week’s best albums
Björk goes Björkers, Gabriels is the band we need right now, Slipknot retain their nihilism, Yeah Yeah Yeahs resist the indie-sleaze revival
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