A heavyweight companion for life
Music’s vast dismembered brocade enchants practitioners and listeners alike
Wagner: the long and short of it
Creativity consists in destruction, in turning the composer inside-out, in making fun of him.
Brahms: sublime genius on a major scale
Forget the sneering of Benjamin Britten, for whom Brahms’s music was “ugly and foul”, the German composer and pianist was a virtuoso talent whose best works burn with volcanic passion and seriousness of purpose
The sound of love
Robert Schumann expresses the intense passion and despair of true love better than any other composer
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It is wrong to use Neville Chamberlain as a byword for cowardice and fecklessness
The ephemeral Farage
Nigel Farage’s appearance in Parliament was as rare as it was undistinguished
Unreadable red bile
This anti-capitalist screed is profoundly and irredeemably fatuous
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