A lopsided performance
Brahms: Double concerto (Sony)
Stravinsky’s reputation is in freefall
Norman Lebrecht re-examines the life and legacy of Stravinsky.
New work, sounding old
A disappointing new collection
Sonatas after slaughter
1919 Coda: Janacek, Boulanger, Debussy, Elgar (Delphian)
An unreviewable album
The music is beautiful; the context is not
No more than curiosities
Bruno Walter: String quartet, piano quintet (CPO)
An epochal set
Nielsen: The Symphonies (DG)
The apple of my ear
Limitless choice and a rattle of regret
Pain, poise and passion
Erich Wolfgang Korngold: String quartets 1-3 (Naxos)
Glenn Gould’s musical laboratory
Glenn Gould: String quartet, opus 1 (CPO)
Starmer’s tax will hurt children
It is not just a tax, it is cruel theft
Some picture-perfect restorations
What we were seeing looked as good as it would have at its premiere
Fiddling while Canterbury burns
The new proposals from the Archbishops’ Commission for Racial Justice are depressingly wrongheaded
Stick ‘em up
Has the culture war been won?
The first female President will be Republican
American conservatives are far less averse to assertive women than the political left
Public sector pay
Bumper pay rises for doctors and teachers are bound to result in higher inflation
Cleaning up the town
As cities grew, so did the need for reform and sanitation
On cockroaches and cancellation (w/ James Dreyfus)
How ideology is spoiling the arts
The triumph of Irish populism
The three major parties went with what is popular, rather than what is right
Escaping the digital dark age
We cannot rely on digital media to preserve our art and knowledge
Hoop dreams
Football turned out to be a poor way of shirking parental duties
