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Oum – A Son’s Quest for His Mother review – hybrid forces bring Bushra El-Turk’s haunting score to vivid life | Classical music | The Guardian
A tour-de-force by actor Nadia Amin centres this tale of the inherited trauma of exile while a trio of singers virtuosically blend Middle Eastern and European operatic idioms
‘Too soothing’: why have music-hating art duo Gilbert & George gone orchestra mad? | Art and design | The Guardian
They once described music as ‘the enemy’. But their warts-and-all paintings of sex, money, race and religion are now being given a soundtrack by the Philharmonia. The great contrarians explain all
Philharmonia/ Rouvali/ Ólafsson review – orchestra opens 80th celebrations with sparkle and style | Classical music | The Guardian
Víkingur Ólafsson’s Beethoven was clear, contemplative and witty, in a concert that also featured Olivier Latry at the mighty RFH organ and a UK premiere from Gabriela Ortiz
You shall go to the ball! Behind the scenes at ENO’s La Cenerentola | Classical music | The Guardian
Photographer David Levene gets an exclusive backstage look at English National Opera’s season-opener – Rossini’s version of Cinderella – complete with white mice, a sprinkle of magic … and men in drag
WDR SO Cologne Chamber Players: The Romantic Room, Chamber Works by Spohr album review – plenty to discover | Classical music | The Guardian
The early 19th century German composer wrote a prodigious amount of music, little of it known today. This rewarding collection features his larger-scale chamber works <br>
‘I just want to shake my tail feather’: how KeiyaA shut out the noise to make one of the year’s best albums | Music | The Guardian
The pressure of besting her self-released debut – and becoming a public figure – made the US vocalist spiral. Remembering who she was inspired her phenomenal second LP, a comparison-defying odyssey of jazz, pop and club music
The late DJ Chris Hill galvanised funkateers, brought Black music to the clubs – and got Mick Jones dancing | Music | The Guardian
The legendary Essex DJ, who died earlier this month, was a cultural influencer before there was such a thing. He democratised the dancefloor, fearlessly blended genres and understood the power of personality
Schoenberg: Violin Concerto, Verklärte Nacht, Die Jakobsleiter album review – a compelling and impressive collection | Arnold Schoenberg | The Guardian
Five works by the modernist composer, all taken from concerts given by Kirill Petrenko and the Berlin Philharmonic, include a magnificent performance of the oratorio fragment Die Jakobsleiter
‘His music jostles like a get-together over a feijoada’: Hermeto Pascoal was Brazilian music’s experimental genius | Music | The Guardian
This irrepressible innovator performed in a river to test its sonic properties, used kettles and bottles as instruments and played with Miles Davis. His influence cannot be overestimated
Mozart’s Women: A Musical Journey review – Lauren Laverne helms an insight-free night that goes out with a bang | Classical music | The Guardian
<strong>Coliseum, London</strong><br>If you wanted to learn about the composer’s female influences, you would have been disappointed – but the arias eventually built to an electric climax
‘We have permission to be brave’: the women taking charge of crisis-hit Welsh National Opera | Welsh National Opera | The Guardian
Adele Thomas and Sarah Crabtree took up their positions as joint heads of WNO in January after brutal funding cuts. But they are confident their pared-down operation will still offer ‘an electric night out’
Tosca review – punchy new Puccini rises above the ‘Shame on you’ Russian soprano protests | Opera | The Guardian
Outrage over the casting of Anna Netrebko didn’t make it to the inside of the auditorium – where roars of approval greeted this high-stakes game of blood-spattered conflict directed by Oliver Mears
Sarah Connolly/Joseph Middleton: The World Feels Dusty album review – powerful narrations spanning Ella Fitzgerald to Emily Dickinson | Classical music | The Guardian
With sweeping, full colour piano Connolly and Middleton pay attention to every word, every harmonic shift in a performance of appealing immediacy
‘The cultural landscape is decimated’: Louise Alder on stage fright, arts funding and the Last Night of the Proms | Classical music | The Guardian
The great soprano will be the first British singer to top the bill at the Last Night in over a decade. So why does she advise her younger colleagues to leave the country?
‘He fondly called me his hash baby’: Mandy Sayer on her larger-than-life father – a lawbreaking jazz musician who couldn’t read or write | Books | The Guardian
Gerry Sayer was a warm, funny yet absent father, so consumed with music that he sacrificed family – but his ‘flair for improvisation’ inspired his writer daughter