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Duke Bluebeard's Castle is plain sinister
Music: ENO�s coupling of Bart�k�s Duke Bluebeard�s Castle and Stravinsky�s Rite of Spring is unconventional but inspired.....read

Lilting and tender show from Gurrumul
Music: The most extraordinary thing about the Australian Aboriginal megastar Gurrumul is his voice.....read

Fun and theatrics with R�yksopp
Music: Torbj�rn Brundtland took to the stage in his dressing gown as Norwegian boys R�yksopp came to Shepherd's Bush Empire to party....read

CDs of the week: Robbie Williams has a cracking comeback album
Music: When Robbie Williams's pleasing, pleading voice is coupled with a background orchestra on Superblind he has something he's never previously come close to: gravitas.....read

Sound check: Rocking with Laughter
Music: Flight of the Conchords are part of a trend that proves it's possible to make a comedy song you can listen to more than once.....read

More Bon Jovi classics? We're livin' on a prayer
Music: It was the hits from their hair-metal heyday that provided the highlights of Bon Jovi's intimate BBC Radio Theatre gig.....read

Leona Lewis's too small gig sets small stage for big star
Music: Leona Lewis needs to hurry up and take that stadium-sized voice on tour to the venues it deserves. ....read

Ren�e Fleming should sprinkle some stardust
Music: Not content to rest on her laurels, the American soprano Ren�e Fleming has been investigating unfamiliar repertoire in recent years.....read

When Arne found time to declare rule, Italia
Music: Known primarily as the composer of the alternative national anthem, Rule, Britannia, Thomas Arne also deserves to be remembered for his opera Artaxerxes.....read

Fleetwood Mac stick to what they do best
Music: Fleetwood Mac headed out to play everyone's favourite songs with no ulterior motive.....read

Guide to the London Jazz Festival
Music: The London Jazz Festival swings into town next month - it's time to learn to love the J-word. Richard Godwin takes you from A to Z....read

Virtuoso performance from France's (English) national hero
Music: No one likes a show off. Except maybe the French. Charlie Winston was drowned in screams as he took to the stage in a packed Islington Academy.....read

Sound check: Meet Ellie the MySpace stalker
Music: Ellie Goulding got to work with the best producers by hunting them down on the internet � now her extraordinary sound is proving popular.....read

Diana Krall is one cool mother
Music: Having taken a sabbatical and given birth to twin boys, the beauteous Diana Krall is back on the road.....read

Barely a pause for breath as Morrissey charms in brief gig
Music: �Fasten your seatbelts, it�s going to be a bumpy ride,� chuckled Morrissey at the start of his Royal Albert Hall show.....read

Alexandra Burke: Since X Factor, it takes me an hour to go round the corner for a pint of milk
Music: Success may have limited her lifestyle but Alexandra Burke, suddenly No1 in the charts, is proud to have overcome so much on her rise to fame....read

Jos� Feliciano can still light a fire
Music: Not even a broken string could halt the momentum of chunky Puerto Rican dazzler Jos� Feliciano in the crisp white shirt and black wraparound shades.....read

Frank Turner: from punk rocker to self-taught troubadour
Music: Frank Turner's gone from Etonian punk rocker 'despised' at school to bohemian hobo, hitting the road after a family betrayal.....read

Turn of the Screw with a sinister twist
Music: Charles Mackerras conjures a dark, sinister quality that perfectly complements the oppressive visual picture in Turn of the Screw.....read

Original punch restored in Porgy and Bess
Music: The resonances shift and Porgy and Bess once again packs the punch that Gershwin intended.....read

Smokey Robinson is still the king of motown
Music: Motown legend Smokey Robinson came to the Roundhouse on Saturday to give the fourth year of the BBC Electric Proms the send-off it deserved.....read