Jonny Best
Jonny Best is a musician and festival director. He tweets at @JonnyWorst
Don’t shoot the piano man
A silent film pianist was blacklisted from the BFI for supporting J.K. Rowling
What we don’t talk about when we talk about mental illness
We talk about mental health differently – but is it an improvement?
More than just noise
Berg, Schoenberg, Webern: Piano works (Warner)
Midlands marvels and mysteries
A fitting if flawed tribute to one of England’s more undersung counties
Mental illness is more complex than we think
There are no easy answers when it comes to mental health
Franco-Irish vigour
Augusta Holmès: Symphonic poems (CPO)
“Bold vision”
An action or choice can perfectly well be bold without being good
Chill message of Booker shortlist
The contempt of publishers for middle-class life and values is diminishing the novel
Prom-lematic
Landlords, Lammy, “Land of Hope and Glory” and other questionable phenomena