Music

Ravel, Dutilleux, Debussy: Quart de nuit (Deux-Elles)

Norman Lebrecht is left wanting more Dutilleux

Lebrecht's Album of the Week
How I discovered classical music

Daniel Johnson describes the joy of indulging in music as a teenage boy

Artillery Row
An essential record

Norman Lebrecht reviews Shostakovich: Violin concertos 1&2, performed by Alina Ibragimova and the State Symphony Orchestra of Russia

Lebrecht's Album of the Week
The sadder side of summer

Tragedy struck Gustav Mahler, the archetypal summer composer, in 1907

On Music
Days in the life of the Fab Four

Joseph Connolly reviews One Two Three Four: The Beatles in Time, by Craig Brown

Books
Sing it again, Frank

Michael Henderson listens once more to the Great American Songbook, most enriching of entertainments

Features
Yardbird: 100 Years of Charlie Parker

Dominic Green looks at the immortality of jazz saxophonist, Charlie Parker

Artillery Row
The welcome sound of silence

For three days I listened to nothing but birdsong, marvelling at the variety and the volume

On Music
Havana heartbeat

How a stiff, gangly, middle-aged Englishman fell for the seductive rhythms of Cuba

Features
Welcome to the unfrozen North

How Canada reinvented its musical prowess

On Music