The bore of the world
Give this one a miss
Schumann/Mahler: Symphonies 1&2 (Naxos)
Schumann cannot be ignored
Ralph Vaughan Williams: Sixth Symphony (Hyperion/ICA Classics)
As shattering as any work of its era
Don’t shoot the pianists, protect them
Conductors should leave accompanying to the collaborative pianists
Gustav Mahler: 5th symphony (Pentatone)
Its ethos in Mahler remains inimitable
The Kreutzer Project (Avie)
An album sadly more quixotic than chivalric
Franz Schubert: String quintet/Quartettsatz (Chandos)
Intimations of life’s fragility
Jean Sibelius: Orchestral songs (LAWO)
The themes are cruel and cold
Alban Berg: Violin concerto &c. (Chandos)
A stunning marriage of the tragic and the erotic
Prokofiev, Tcherepnin: The Bark of Yearning (Avi-music)
This is prime Prokofiev
The half-forgotten promise of the Jubilee Line
The London Underground line points the way towards a better future
Britain should get serious about organised crime
We underestimate how much crime is the work of small, nasty groups of people
In defence of Michael Foran
Do not confuse the intensity of trolls for righteousness
The shell shock of the arts
How will the art world respond to its narrative shock?
The downfall of the podcast-industrial complex
How did some of our finest podcasters get the election so wrong?
War crimes and Western double standards
How can politicians cheer the ICC pursuing Putin but not Netanyahu?
Public sector pay
Bumper pay rises for doctors and teachers are bound to result in higher inflation
How Putin uses history as a weapon
Russia’s new Tsar has rewritten the national story
People of Colour television
How to unpick the progressive contradictions of colour-blind casting
Tense present
Our demand for immediacy makes it difficult to appreciate the past, the present or the future
Impressive yet unmoving
Franz Schmidt: 4 symphonies (Naxos)
