Englishness with an aftertaste
The pleasures of cowpats
No ordinary musicologist
Krzysztof Meyer, Dmitri Shostakovich: Cello-piano sonatas (Kaleidos)
An enemy of the best
Nothing routine, showy or ill-considered
A college in tune with the times
How music colleges need to adjust to the twenty-first century
Outwards and inwards
Drawing the ear into every era of western music
A hundred shades of autumn leaves
He grips the attention with every phrase
A guaranteed crowd pleaser
Let the brass section blow cobwebbed memories to kingdom come
Rage captured to perfection
Chamber symphonies were a neglected genre revived during the Covid shutdowns
Jiving in the ruins
This dazzling album features young composers in hyperinflationary Berlin
The missing dimension
Warning: contains passages of symphonic transcendence
Marriage matters
We have to fix the foundations of the family
When America ignored a slaughter
Whatever America’s flaws, its absence from the global stage leaves a space quickly filled by far more malevolent actors
Was Houellebecq right?
Reassessing the French novelist vilified for forecasting the Islamicisation of France
“Nice” people need to read this book
How women have been hounded throughout the gender wars
Leo Varadkar is still stirring division
The former Taoiseach should have more humility
Landscapes of allusion and illusion
On the architecture of recreation
Progressive realism
Can Labour’s new foreign policy doctrine work in our troubled world?
Save nursing from the universities
There is no need for nursing to be a graduate only occupation
A race to the bottom
Women should not give legitimacy to an appalling platform
Can Nigel Farage do his job?
Against the grim passivity of British politics
The dismal state of British defence
The UK’s defence strategy is a combination of hope and vibes
