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ReviewMusic
Violent and sensual: ‘L’amore dei tre re’ returns to La Scala after 70 years — review
...Maestros from La Scala’s pantheon of conductors have made L’amore dei tre re (“The Love of the Three Kings”) what it is: Italo Montemezzi’s best-known opera....
October 30, 2023
ReviewAlbums
Vijay Iyer: Compassion — from the left-field of contemporary jazz
...Here, the vibe is funky, riffs get repeated and melodies are clear....
February 14, 2024
FT Live
Business of Art
Market shifts and future growth
Monday, 7 October180 Studios, London, UK
HTSIThe Art of Sound: starring Burna Boy, Peter Blake, Michael Stipe, Samara Joy, Lankum and more
Burna Boy is an ‘African Giant’. He wants to be even bigger
...Ogulu made his musical debut in 2010 with a string of single releases, eventually releasing his debut album, L.I.F.E – Leaving an Impact For Eternity in 2013....
February 21, 2024
ReviewAlbums
Sissoko, Segal, Parisien & Peirani conjure a musical impressionism in Les Égarés
...The album’s cover is a watercolour of the four musicians seated in a forest clearing, as if enjoying a safe-for-work “Déjeuner sur l’herbe”....
March 24, 2023
ReviewAlbums
Compositrices — five stars for survey of French women composers
...Among the works getting their first recordings are Charlotte Sohy’s passionately heated Symphony in C sharp minor, the seductive salon music of Jeanne Danglas’s L’Amour s’éveille and La Sirène, a dramatic...
March 24, 2023
ReviewMusic
Five stars for L'arbore di Diana, Vienna — steamy operatic satire
...L’arbore di Diana (Diana’s Tree) is a satirical comedy, a political allegory, and a steamy tale of sex and transgression....
December 6, 2022
FT Live
Business of Entertainment Summit
Capitalizing on Disruption
Thursday, 19 SeptemberLos Angeles, CA
ReviewTravel books
Steeple Chasing by Peter Ross — tales of a church-crawler
...Touring East Anglia, Ross inspects the roof angels of St Peter’s Upwell, the Fenland church on which Dorothy L Sayers drew for her tantalising 1934 mystery novel of bell-ringers and bigamy, The Nine Tailors...
May 12, 2023
ReviewAlbums
Michela Musolino: La Notti Triunfanti — Sicilian Christmas songs given a Deep South twist
...The boogie-woogie piano accompaniment of “Li Tri Re di l’Orienti” is appropriately left-hand-heavy....
December 16, 2022
ReviewVisual Arts
The 17th-century painter and priest with a documentarian’s eye for detail
...The dish of apples — mela — is close to melos (melody), the trompe l’oeil fly — musca — alights on another score, musica....
November 23, 2022
HTSI
Charlotte Rampling’s smoky-voiced reflections on love
...The enchanting melodies speak for themselves....
November 16, 2022
ReviewAlbums
Danger Mouse & Black Thought: Cheat Codes album review — a sublime, startling mix
...Raekwon and Chicago vocalist Kid Sister are a captivating combo on “The Darkest Part”, and it’s thrilling to hear a vocal from the late DOOM (who died in 2020) on the trippy melody of “Belize”....
August 12, 2022
FT MagazineTim Hayward
Gimmick-free magic with the wizard of The Walnut Tree
...In a debilitating attack of l’esprit de l’escalier, I have since realised there’s no reason on God’s green earth I couldn’t have had both....
October 6, 2022
InterviewMusic
Exile, freedom and yearning in the songs of Souad Massi
...Acoustic guitar, filled with the yearning of Berber mountain music, picks out a delicate melody....
October 7, 2022
HTSI12 extraordinary interiors we loved this year
The monochromatic majesty of Joël Andrianomearisoa
...In terms of perfume, I have two favourites: Diptyque’s L’Autre, which has a peppery smell, and Dior’s Eau Noire, which is also smoked – neither are easy to wear. diptyqueparis.com My favourite room in my...
April 22, 2022
ReviewAlbums
Rhiannon Giddens and Francesco Turrisi reunite for They’re Calling Me Home
...Elsewhere there are quiet instrumentals, a couple of pieces in Italian (“Nenna Nenna” an old folk song about a thieving sparrow; “Si dolce è'l tormento” a stripped-down setting of Monteverdi’s madrigal,...
April 23, 2021
FT Live
Business of Luxury Summit
Gathering leaders in luxury for the 20th year
Sunday, 19 MayVenice, Italy
ReviewAlbums
Black Midi’s Cavalcade is a bold act of provocation
...“John L” is about a charismatic preacher who falls victim to the frenzy into which he has whipped his followers....
May 28, 2021
ReviewVisual Arts
Poussin and the Dance at the National Gallery, London
...By the 1800s the picture was in France, and titled “La Danse des Saisons, ou l’image de la vie humaine”....
October 7, 2021
ReviewAlbums
Bab L’Bluz: Nayda! — trance-inducing gnawa music
...Hafid Zouaoui’s drums gallop as Mansour works around the microtones of the melody and Brice Bottin’s bass guembri rushes through the same riffs over and over again....
July 10, 2020
ReviewAlbums
King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard: K.G. — a rich and complex affair
...To begin with, on the opening tracks “K.G.L.W.” and “Automation”, they play a kind of folk-rock, with guitar melodies that are more memorable than the vocal lines....
November 21, 2020
ReviewAlbums
Oumou Sangaré: Acoustic — low on frills, high on energy
...Deep in the background, generally, is Vincent Taurelle of production team A.l.b.e.r.t., providing the slightest shimmer of celesta to lift the end of “Saa Magni” (a new song mourning the death of Amadou...
August 21, 2020
ReviewAlbums
Carla Bruni’s self-titled album is breezy and pleasant but unrevealing
...The best songs (“Rien que l’extase”, “Comme si c’était hier”) are cheerfully straightforward pastiches of 1960s French pop....
October 9, 2020
InterviewMusic
Bill Callahan — the ‘miserabilist’ steps into the light
...Spartan guitar melodies open up hidden depths of feeling. Vocals are uttered in a steady baritone voice, as though dredging language for meaning....
August 26, 2020
The Aesthete
Oliver Reichert on cello music, model boats and the Bavarian woods
...One of the best is the concept store L’Eclaireur, which has a unique mix of clothing, furniture and ceramics....
June 17, 2020
ReviewAlbums
Various Artists/Lord Kitchener: London is the Place for Me, vols 7 and 8 — cool Windrush calypso
...The French Creole “L’Année Passée”, by Calypso Rhythm Kings, provided the melody for the song many of us know as “Rum and Coca-Cola”. Women are more prominent than on previous volumes....
December 20, 2019
Due Diligence
Borrowers introduce the ‘corona clause’ “” — Premium content
...Law firm Ashurst has added Melody He-Chen as a partner in Hong Kong. She joins from DLA Piper....
March 19, 2020

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