Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The three composers on this digital-only album are Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson, William Grant Still and George ...

The soul-shattering abuses suffered by enslaved Africans, who were forcibly stripped of their languages, religions and other key aspects of their culture, were fortunately no match for their ...

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Abrasive, intense and about to erupt at any moment. So begins Flow, a new piece by Nokuthula Ngwenyama for the Takács Quartet. Coaxing peculiar sounds out of centuries-old string instruments, the ...

What is a string quartet? In the Classical period, string quartets were a popular form of chamber music that was composed to be performed in the home of a monarch or aristocrat.