Listen to the best of this week's new releases - selected by Listener staff.

Based these days in the UK, Port Chalmers songwriting icon Nadia Reid unfurled her fourth studio album Enter Now Brightness — recorded with an all-star cast of instrumental contributors and exploring ...

Nollywood actress Funke Akindele has revealed that she used to borrow clothes from her colleague, Sikiratu Sindodo (Tayo Odueke), to look stylish on movie sets in her early days in the industry.

Umo Eno’s deception. It’s time to activate plans to win Akwa Ibom State and secure your reelection.’’ There is no single mention of the Senate President, who is the leader of APC in the South-South ...

Katie Derham is joined by pianist Mariam Batsashvili ahead of her concert at London’s Wigmore Hall. Plus actor Brian Cox and his wife Nicole Ansari-Cox drop into the In Tune studio to talk about ...

With the Nordic Soundscapes Festival, Thomas Sondergard puts his stamp on the Minnesota Orchestra (and its interior spaces). Thomas Sondergard, outside of Orchestra Hall in Minneapolis ...

The San Antonio Philharmonic was formed after the demise of the city’s 83-year-old orchestra in 2022. But rebuilding has not been easy. Jeffrey Kahane leads the San Antonio Philharmonic in a ...

For the 2nd concert of their Barbican stopover, Gustavo Dudamel and his orchestra are remembering home as the vibrant Latino vibes of Riccardo Lorenz and Gonzalo Grau encounter fate-full Tchaikovsky.

It has long been expected given that Governor Umo Eno of Akwa Ibom State inherited all members of his cabinet from his predecessor, the then Governor Udom Emmanuel. It was quite unusual, not a single ...

Defying the convention of massive orchestral scores, Matthew Sweet looks at the films that embrace the intimacy of chamber music for their soundtracks.