An epochal violinist
Eugene Ysaye: Solo violin sonatas (Deutsche Grammophon)
Requiem for London’s music
How London has lost its place as a classical music capital.
Too formal for the pub
Mr Händel im pub: Baroque meets folk (Arcantus)
Unenticing overtures
Rautavaara: 3rd piano concerto (Bis); Overtures from Finland (Chandos)
Contemplating infinity
Franz Liszt: Transcendental Etudes (Steinway)
Inconsistent glory
Sergei Rachmaninov: Symphonies 2 and 3
We are indebted to Otto Klemperer
On the extraordinary talent of a troubled composer
Organic rebirth
A monumental masterpiece, miraculously brought to life
Encompassing a life
RIP Kaija Saariaho
Delicate decadence
A tantalising selection of songs
Why Ukraine almost certainly cannot win
And why the war is likely to continue anyway
The 300 Years’ War
How conflict over land ownership shaped conflict over Ireland
The EU is leaving Britain behind on immigration
The continent is waking up to the need for solutions, and Britain must wake up as well
What does it mean to be Christian?
We are in danger of reducing faith to the shallow depths of personality and politics
After Covid
English towns have a long road to economic recovery
Impressive yet unmoving
Franz Schmidt: 4 symphonies (Naxos)
Afrocentrism with a Labour twist
Dawn Butler’s Black History Month video was disturbing as well as weird
Booty contest
This book sets out to rebalance ahistorical narratives of how museum collections were constructed
Sports inequity
Modern academia wants us to believe six impossible things before breakfast
Democracy is being undermined in Northern Ireland
Brussels and London are both being reckless about Stormont
An orderly and civilised society
The biggest missing idea in British politics
