Editor's Choice - Music

More highlights from the music world:

South Korean composer Unsuk Chin talks to us ahead of the World Premiere of Šu, her new concerto for Chinese sheng and orchestra at the Suntory Summer Festival in Tokyo.

The Labeque Sisters perform ahead of this year's proms.

Behzad Bolour selects picks of Persian music.

Conductor Jun Markl is on this year's BBC Proms programme.

Jazz legend Herbie Hancock and Chinese classical musician Lang Lang have recently been performing together...

A special programme celebrating 50 years of Island Records.

An exclusive performance by the Kenyan Boys Choir for The Strand.

Zambia: Jo Fidgen meets Maiko Zulu, a controversial reggae artist, in a slum in Lusaka called Chibolya.

Baaba Maal discusses his latest album Television.

One of classical music's biggest stars, the pianist Lang Lang, talks about his inspirations.

Jarvis Cocker of UK band Pulp returns with his second solo album, Further Complications.

The Aboriginal Australian musician Gurrumul performs exclusively for The Strand.

The US blues guitarist and singer Taj Mahal on his new album Maestro, made with some of the key people he's worked with over the years.

Peruvian band Novalima talk to us about their mix of traditional music and electronic sounds.

Jazz chanteuse Melody Gardot introduces her second album My One and Only Thrill.

One of the biggest stars in Balkan music, Goran Bregovic, tells us about his new album Alkohol.

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British Jazz superstar Courtney Pine talks about his album Transition in Tradition.

Music journalist Sophie Harris picks the music acts to listen out for in 2009.

Mark Coles talks to the songwriting trio Holland Dozier Holland who between them wrote 54 number 1 Motown singles and notched up 100 million TV and radio airplays.