Worthy instrument
York Bowen, Willam Walton: Viola concertos (SWR Music)
Dancing with Beethoven
Beethoven: String Quartets, vol.2 (Chandos)
Hi-energy nutrients
Schoenfield, Vivier, Bartok &c (Accentus Music)
A captivating northern star
If Lise Davidsen sneezes, the opera world shuts down
Poor conduct
Shostakovich: Symphonies 4-6 (Decca)
More than just noise
Berg, Schoenberg, Webern: Piano works (Warner)
Franco-Irish vigour
Augusta Holmès: Symphonic poems (CPO)
Forces of nature
Antonin Dvorak: Symphonies (Warner/Pentatone)
Enthralling eclecticism
Roberto Gerhard: Don Quixote, &c. (Chandos)
Piano in wartime
War poems (Somm)
Passing the baton to the offspring
Does maestro talent run in the genes?
Is Cheltenham beyond parody?
A books bash these days has to offer Geri and Geoff Hurst and that bloke out of Radiohead
Hot desking
We, the special advisers of the Labour Party, seek justice!
Marriage matters
We have to fix the foundations of the family
Office politics
There’s the joker, the slacker, and the bloke who just got fired
What we don’t talk about when we talk about mental illness
We talk about mental health differently – but is it an improvement?
South Africa needs better policies, not just better vibes
Political change must lead to economic change as well
Rising above the mob
Questioning is kryptonite to the genderist cause
Will Starmer’s immigration gambit backfire?
The prime minister might have opened a box that he cannot close
Gothic staging
The Turn of the Screw, Coliseum
A statement flower
The most fanatical have spent fortunes to find the rarest and finest of these blooms
