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• Queens and aces: the best classical music of 2019

  01-01-2019 16:01
  There’s a year-long celebration of female composers, a brand new festival of contemporary music – and it’s birthday time for BerliozThis is the start of a year-long celebration of female composers at Kings Place. The history of women in music, from medieval times to the present day, will be traced in 60 events featuring more than 100 composers. It all begins with a portrait of Barbara Strozzi, contemporary of Monteverdi and pupil of Cavalli.
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• Ellie Goulding: 'I'm finally myself again'

  01-01-2019 16:01
  Back with a bold fourth album, Ellie Goulding is set on a new sound, averting environmental catastrophe – and settling a score or twoThe hottest music coming in 2019Thanks to her stadium-husky voice, deployed on expansive pop full of unabashed emotion, Ellie Goulding has long been one of the UK’s biggest global pop stars. In 2019 she releases her fourth album which, judging by the excellent songs played to the Guardian, is sure to be another hit. But she also has a stack of ongoing e
  
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• Pop, punk and protest songs: the hottest music on the horizon in 2019

  01-01-2019 16:00
  With the uproarious Idles hitting the road, Kamasi Washington play a mind-expanding UK show, and new albums from the Specials, Weezer and AJ Tracey, here are the sounds the new year will be shaking toThe 1975’s progress from cult status to platinum-selling stadium-fillers has looked swift and straightforward, at least from the outside, but it hasn’t come at the expense of their desire to experiment. New album A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships teems with ideas from cool jazz t
  
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• How to Be Invisible by Kate Bush review – trying to unravel an enigma

  01-01-2019 08:00
  The singer-songwriter’s lyric collection is free of explanation yet still explores her curiosity for life and loveTrust Kate Bush, never one to explain, to complicate the straightforward lyrics collection. She doesn’t annotate this anthology, unlike Neil Tennant’s recent Faber edition. Instead, subtler direction follows an introduction by author David Mitchell, who wrote the spoken-word parts of Bush’s 2014 Before the Dawn performances. Mitchell intermingles charming fann
  
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