Cheltenham jazz festival (I)

Cheltenham jazz festival

Quinteto Piazzolla

4 Stars Barbican, London

Craig David

Royal Albert Hall, London

JoAnne Brackeen

Ronnie Scott's, London

Ligeti: Hamburg Concerto; Double Concerto; Ramifications; Requiem: Neunecker/ Holliger/ Zoon/ London Voices/ Asko & Schoenberg Ensembles/ De Leeuw/ Berlin Philharmonic/Nott

(Teldec)

Blur: Think Tank

(Parlophone)

Outrageous fortune

Gertrude gets to a nunnery and Hamlet is crowned king. Tim Ashley on a remarkable reworking of Shakespeare.

Judy Carmichael

, Pizza on the Park, London

Philharmonia/Thielemann

Royal Festival Hall, London

Sound and fury

After a lifetime of frustration at her tone-deafness, Margaret Drabble has, thanks to Brahms, experienced a musical miracle

Aphex Twin: 26 remixes for cash

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Jane Birkin

Barbican, London

OAE/Brüggen

Queen Elizabeth Hall, London

Golijov: Last Round; Lullaby and Doina, etc

Andrew Clements on a radical fusion of Latin American and Jewish traditions.

LamenTate

Tate Modern, London