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David Crosby: Here If You Listen review – turbocharged Trump-whacking teamwork

The celebrated Byrds and Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young co-founder’s seventh album is his fourth in just four years. Touring with much younger musicians – Becca Stevens, Michelle Willis, Michael League and Bill Laurance feature here – seems to have … Continue reading →

David Crosby and Friends review – the old Byrd is on fire and roaring

The counterculture veteran purrs as richly as his twentysomething self and rages about today’s police shootings in a revelatory concert

David Crosby: Croz – review

David Crosby's first solo album in two decades is pleasingly diverse, writes Molloy Woodcraft

Crosby, Stills & Nash – review

The vintage rockers are still delivering California sweetness, even if the harmonies waver, writes Ian Gittins

Crosby, Stills and Nash at Glastonbury 2009

Apart from the grey hair, they're pretty much the same three guys who've been weaving those voices and mellow guitar parts around each other since the late 60s

The Byrds, There Is a Season

(Columbia, four CDs + DVD)

David Crosby and Graham Nash, Crosby-Nash

, (Sanctuary).
  • Alim Beisembayev review – intimacy and conviction in programme of Romanticism
  • Royal Liverpool Philharmonic/ Candillari review – Simpson’s oratorio shrieks; Elgar and Sibelius stay polite
  • LPO/Tan Dun review – a full battery of drums, dramatic inhalations and hints of Mongolian throat singing
  • The Turn of the Screw review – gripping and unsettling water-logged staging of Britten’s ghost story
  • Tamerlano review – Trump, Freud and a Bridgerton escapee struggle to get a handle on Handel
  • Miroslav Vitous: Mountain Call review – double bass duets balance muscularity with mellowness
  • Flea: Honora review – Chili Pepper turns piper, taking up trumpet for a soulful jazz odyssey
  • Mendelssohn: Symphonies and Oratorios album review – Andris Nelsons’ prodigious talent on full display
  • Anne-Sophie Mutter: East Meets West album review – diverse, bold and brand new
  • Paul McCartney: Days We Left Behind review – this wistful, lovely song is as McCartney-esque as it’s possible to be
  • Rigoletto review – strong revival of Mears’s violent take, with Elder revelatory in the pit
  • Fcukers: Ö review – hyped Harry Styles-supporting NYC hedonists have the hooks to merit the hoopla
  • The Passion of Mary Magdalene review – Tansy Davies’s score is taut and intriguing
  • Imeneo review – Handel in mischievous mood handled with wit and care
  • Robyn: Sexistential review – pop doyenne returns with emotional grenades and a new philosophy
  • Raye: This Music May Contain Hope review – a wildly ambitious epic of unbridled self-expression
  • FKA twigs review – an Olympian display of pop prowess
  • Pagliacci review – Leoncavallo’s grand guignol staged with insight and commitment
  • Geese review – all hail the new saviours of rock’n’roll
  • The Gondoliers review – brilliantly barbed Gilbert and Sullivan is a feast for the eyes and ears
  • BTS review – having lost none of their chemistry, this is a comeback of epic proportions
  • BTS: Arirang review – the world’s biggest pop band return with dumb fun and downright weirdness
  • Grace Ives: Girlfriend review – bedroom-pop auteur goes widescreen for a gorgeous sobriety epic
  • Huw Marc Bennett: Heol Las review – exhilarating Welsh folk injected with synths, sitars and surf rock
  • Johannes-Passion album review – Pygmalion are razor sharp in theatrical new recording
  • Through the Centuries: Songs of Madeleine Dring album review – puts paid to any idea that she was not a serious composer
  • Underscores: U review – ultra-imaginative auteur has pop’s most brilliant brain
  • Siegfried review – invigorating and mesmerising staging, with Schager outstanding as Wagner’s hero
  • Wu-Tang Clan review – still bringing the ruckus even on their farewell tour
  • The Kingdom: Oxford Bach Choir, BSO/Nicholas review – Elgar’s unloved oratorio sounds expansive and convincing

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