The Arts Desk Radio Show 5

Peter Culshaw and Joe Muggs discuss the new Nigerian pop scene, Havana-Croydon dubstep and celebrate Astor Piazzolla

Peter has just come back from Lagos, so the first part of the show is a brief tour d’horizon of the dynamic Nigerian pop scene, featuring Asa, Tiwa Savage, 2Face, Flavour and D’Banj, the “Koko-Master”, who has just had his first UK Top 10 hit with “Oliver Twist”. Also discussed is the musical marriage and messy divorce between Don Jazzy and D’banj, who has signed to Kanye West's label world-wide, as well as the fact that Ye is rumoured to be an Illuminati. Is Nigerian pop about to go global? Quite possibly.

Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra, Koopman, Christ Church Spitalfields

AMSTERDAM BAROQUE ORCHESTRA: Drama both on and offstage in the opening concert of the Spitalfields Summer Festival

Drama both on and offstage in this opening concert of the Spitalfields Summer Festival

It’s one thing for UK Border Control to turn Heathrow’s Arrivals into a giant theme-park queue, but it’s quite another when they start messing with our music. Paperwork issues yesterday saw one Japanese and two Korean members of the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra denied entry to the UK, leaving Ton Koopman and his band too under-staffed to attempt their planned Brandenburg Concerto. Fortunately, soprano soloist Dorothee Mields stepped up with Bach’s Cantata BWV 199, giving us a rather more vocal, but no less Bach-centric evening of music to open this year’s Spitalfields Festival.

Maxim Vengerov, Itamar Golan, Wigmore Hall

MAXIM VENGEROV: The world's greatest violinist returns and reclaims his crown

The world's greatest violinist returns and reclaims his crown

Musicians can go one of two ways after a period of prolonged professional absence. The hiatus can either set them free (Horowitz) or screw them up (Pogorelich). In the case of Maxim Vengerov, we already knew that the latter hadn't happened. A successful early reappearance with the St Petersburg Philharmonic at the Royal Festival Hall a few weeks back - where he stepped in for an AWOL Martha Argerich - proved that.