Music

With his “music that doesn't disturb” the German became one of the biggest-selling recording artists in Europe

Carl Orff’s choral masterwork Carmina Burana was feted by the Nazis. But was he a willing collaborator or a canny survivor?

Sparks still have a truly unique sound but it's yet to be seen how their latest work will influence musicians this side of the Atlantic

The electronic boys from Basildon are a national treasure – both at home and abroad

After a decade of striving for success, David Bowie finally had it all. And then he seemed to throw it all away by killing off “my monster”

The contest looks plausibly like an alternative governmental structure for our fissiparous yet self-loving continent

The impact Eurovision has is too important to be dismissed as a fluffy amateur festival

The recent Ed Sheeran plagiarism court case revives the old question of where music really comes from

The Japanese composer’s work was imbued with a healthy disregard for musical and national boundaries

In the early 70s, the band decamped to the rural Netherlands to make a ‘comeback’ album that nearly finished them

Grandbrothers’ new release Late Reflections matches the landmark’s emotional heft

Morris dancing, folk music and other English traditions are making a comeback. And the new followers are a diverse bunch

It is apparent that Picasso’s name comes to the lips of singers with the same ease as “Jesus” or “Elvis”

The late Israeli actor and singer performed If I Were a Rich Man more than 3,500 times in multiple productions of Fiddler on the Roof

Arguably the greatest footballer in the world has inspired a plethora of songs across Europe

In the 1970s, the Jamaican singer was a new definition of the slogan ‘Black Power’ and she did not need politics

Kælan Mikla bring their witchy synth-punk to the UK for the first time since the pandemic

How Sweden’s Eurovision loser became perhaps Europe’s greatest-ever jazz singer

It was a real privilege to sit down with Björn Ulvaeus this week to discuss the band's social impact

After decades of success in the US and Europe, the Russian composer suffered an ignominious demise in 1950s Moscow

How the jazz musician’s iconic soundtrack to Lift to the Scaffold still resonates today

From The Rolling Stones and The Cure to Jean-Louis Murat: How musicians excel at melding literature and song

The British trio are back with more of their despairing, sinister sounds on new album The Fell

Traditionally it’s assumed that there is only a west-to-east movement but there has been a rich tradition the other way

Madonna has always questioned contemporary social norms. Why would we expect her to change now?

Music has long tried to solve the riddle of childhood and recapture the point of view of the child that we all once were

25 years since Mamma Mia! first premiered the jukebox musical is unlikely to go away any time soon

An award for Swedish power metallers Sabaton quickly turned sour when a concert in Crimea emerged

The French composer who grew up in a cult and found solace in the power of music

Nearly 20 years after his death Sacha Distel is enjoying an afterlife through his music

Extra paperwork, border checks and additional costs for exports - Brexit has destroyed the livelihoods of countless musicians

Europe has long provided the soundtrack to despair and desolation