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“I could finally quieten down this noise in my head... the best in the room is sitting over there – and it doesn’t have to maybe be me”: John Mayer says that when Jeff Beck was in the room, he felt he could finally relax about his guitar playing

Mayer has described a sense of a weight being lifted when in the presence of the formidable guitar talent

Guitar World

"It’s seemingly nursery-rhyme simple, but there are a few intriguing twists": A music professor breaks down the theory and production behind Billie Eilish's Golden Globe-winning, Barbie-soundtracking What Was I Made For?

We put Billie Eilish's haunting contribution to the star-studded Barbie soundtrack under the musical microscope

MusicRadar

I searched high and low for a classical musician who looked like me. The man I found has changed my life

The 300-year-old music of Joseph Bologne opened the door to magic and connection, and took me to Guadeloupe this year, says academic Olivette Otele

The Guardian - UK

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The week in classical: Don Giovanni Tenorio; Ariodante – review

Elegant Handel and a fizzing production of Gazzaniga’s rarely seen take on Don Giovanni provided two fine showcases for the next generation of opera talent

The Guardian - UK

How music heals us, even when it's sad – by a neuroscientist leading a new study of musical therapy

When I hear Shania Twain’s You’re Still The One, it takes me back to when I was 15, playing on my Dad’s PC. I was tidying up the mess after he had tried to [take his own life]. He’d been listening to her album, and I played it as I…

The Conversation

Hotel Sacher Salzburg review: Grand tradition meets homely vibes with mesmerising views

Perched right on the banks of the Salzach river offering unrivalled views of the city and Alps, a Wes Anderson-esque hotel awaits, writes Rachel Sharp

The Independent UK

Classical home listening: Chineke!’s Nutcracker Suite; Angela Hewitt’s Mozart Sonatas

Chineke! swing in an infectious jazz version of Tchaikovsky’s ballet by Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn. And Angela Hewitt keeps Mozart wonderfully fresh

The Guardian - UK

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Mozart: Piano Concs K238 and 503 album review – cool precision from Kristian Bezuidenhout on a period fortepiano

Freiburg Baroque Orch.(Harmonia Mundi)

The Guardian - UK

Schools to teach rap and grunge in music classes ‘in bid to diversify curriculum’

Literature resources will also be updated to feature contemporary black British writers

The Independent UK

Making music is a family affair for Alisa Weilerstein and Rafael Payare

Cellist Alisa Weilerstein and conductor Rafael Payare are on a four-concert cross-country run that ends Friday night at Carnegie Hall

The Independent UK

In brief: Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop; Birdgirl; Mozart in Italy – reviews

The tale of a divorcee embraces its sentimentality; a young birdwatcher proves a gifted memoirist; and Mozart’s Italian job sparkles with detail

The Guardian - UK

Classical home listening: Anna Lapwood’s Luna; Renaud Capuçon plays Mozart’s Violin Concertos

From Chopin to Peter Pan, organist Anna Lapwood’s debut album spreads its net wide. And the French violinist expertly captures Mozart’s spontaneity

The Guardian - UK

Spinal Tap’s Derek Smalls: ‘I’d like to collaborate with Mozart. I know chords he’s never used’

The bass player legend, played by Harry Shearer in the film This Is Spinal Tap, talks facial hair, courgettes and how to break out of a cocoon

The Guardian - UK

10 best European city breaks – and where to stay this winter

Indulge in a culture-packed trip to the Continent at one of these top picks from The Independent’s travel team

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On my radar: Rebecca F Kuang’s cultural highlights

The bestselling author of Yellowface on prepping for Christopher Nolan films, a touring Mozart biopic and the swaggering young stars of Italian rock

The Guardian - UK

Classical home listening: Mozart and CPE Bach from the Dunedin Consort; Cuarteto Quiroga’s Atomos

The baroque specialists thrill in a new edition of Mozart’s C minor Mass, while the Spanish string quartet go to the edge with Beethoven, Bartók and more

The Guardian - UK

Nina Simone is first black person to be Desert Island Discs’ most selected artist of year

Exclusive: Analysis shows change in guests and tastes help jazz musician keep classical music off top spot

The Guardian - UK

Prom 69: Pygmalion/Pichon review – fascinating and moving take on Mozart’s Requiem

Raphaël Pichon interweaves Mozart’s unfinished masterpiece with the composer’s shorter vocal and choral meditations on mortality eliciting playing and singing of terrific immediacy

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The Guardian - US

Springsteen, Dolly Parton and the Killers: songs presidential candidates think make them look good

From paranoia-tinged GOP favorite Mr Brightside to a Mozart banger, you can learn a lot from music a person pretends to like

The Guardian - UK

Herb Alpert on 80 years in music: ‘Mozart, Thelonious Monk ... all of us have the same 12 notes’

The trumpeter and co-founder of A&M Records answers your questions on writing a Bond theme, selling 72m albums and signing Janet Jackson, Karen Carpenter and the ‘appalling’ Sex Pistols

The Guardian - UK

Music may reduce babies’ pain during jabs or heel-prick tests, study suggests

Newborns suffered less pain during heel-prick blood tests if they heard a Mozart lullaby, researchers report

Evening Standard

Prom 47 at Royal Albert Hall review: Les Siècles under Francois-Xavier Roth give a life-enhancing performance

The avant-garde composer György Ligeti’s progressive work shines at the Proms

The Guardian - US

From Titanic to American Sniper: the biggest lies in fact-based movies

Controversy over debunked elements of Oscar-winning drama The Blind Side won’t be the first time a film based on a true story has taken liberties with the truth

The Guardian - UK

Mozart Piano Quartets review – rising soloists combine elegance and eloquence

Violinist Francesca Dego, violist Timothy Ridout, cellist Laura van der Heijden and pianist Federico Colli combine character and grace in Mozart’s innovative quartets

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