Masaaki Suzuki: spreading the gospel of baroque
As Japan gears up for 2020's Cultural Olympiad, its leading conductor is taking Bach beyond borders
As Japan gears up for 2020's Cultural Olympiad, its leading conductor is taking Bach beyond borders
As the French artist turns 100, a retrospective salutes a titan of abstraction
The countertenor offers a programme of Baroque opera, with Handel well represented by a couple of deeply probing arias
The two leaders play on the contrast between staccato quick-fire attack and extraordinarily vocalised tone
The Wu-Tang-inspired collective rap about topics that are not wholesome with music based around stark beats and icy melodies
New York DJ's latest deploys acid house Roland synthesiser squiggles and choppy drum and bass breakbeats with abandon
Album features bass drum, kick drum and snare drum sounds that create fast, hard patterns, with hints of African percussion
This reissued version of the 1980 reunion between the South African trumpeter and singer-songwriter Miriam Makeba is as powerful as ever
Childhood traumas revisited in a horror sequel; and a hugely enjoyable goodbye to Westeros
In an atomising world with diminishing shared culture, it's interesting to note what topics comedians can now rely on for common ground
Social issues and new technology bring change to streetwise but tender characters
Al-Masih (the serene and assured Mehdi Dehbi) can seemingly force reality itself to bend around him
From high-tech to hygge, our homes changed at top speed in the 2010s " what will the 2020s bring?
The arts world enters the next era grappling with its conscience over the climate, #MeToo, diversity and philanthropy
The track about love in the face of adversity became the band's breakthrough international hit
Early streaming of Martin Scorsese's 'The Irishman' left film with reduced cinema audience
Campaigners for a full revival of East End site await ministerial decision
Michelle Dorrance's dancers shine at the Joyce Theater, but you yearn for them to make more of Duke Ellington's jazzed-up Tchaikovsky
The American singer has finally claimed the festive crown in the US, but the UK is stuck with novelty baked goods
FT film critic Nigel Andrews selects his favourites, from the voluptuous crime-athon 'The Irishman' to the harrowing war documentary 'For Sama'
This year's favourite releases were spectacular in innovation rather than scale, from 'Untitled Goose Game' to 'The Outer Worlds'
Fun though it may be, this collection of out-takes is never quite the sum of its parts
The director's satire on consumerist culture shines through in this sparkling new print
Saoirse Ronan shines as the tomboyish lead sister in this adaptation of Louisa May Alcott's novel " with sly feminist subtexts
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's 1943 fable is brought to life by Frank Moon's music in this dance theatre adaptation