Mahler: Symphonies 1, 2 and songs (various labels)
The highs and lows of following a great
The ultimate collaborator
Sergio Tiempo: Hommage (Avanti)
Too light by half
Bernard Herrmann: Wuthering Heights (Chandos)
The end of the Emersons
Infinite Voyage: Emerson Quartet (Alpha Classics)
Immense energies
Grazyna Bacewicz: Piano concertos &c (Ondine)
In the family
A rare contrast of composers
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)
Motorway-mania
Britain in the age of the automobile
Britain should stand up to Mauritius
The British Government must make it clear that it will not allow a foreign country to threaten British citizens
Joe Biden needs a Reagan moment
It is time not just for strong words but for serious demands
The fallacy of soft power
The world runs on cold national self interest, not cultural capital
Men deserve single-sex spaces too
The campaign against the Garrick Club is tiresome and opportunistic
In praise of borrowed ideas
AI will not be the death of creativity, and could even enhance it
Crisis, what crisis?
The Spring Budget was a shameless manifesto of complacency and managed decline
A festival for women — and men?
You cannot address the underrepresentation of women by including men
Parents are being hypocritical about smartphones
Yes, kids use their phones too much, but what about adults?
Recasting the Crown for modern Britain
This progressive historian’s real charge against the monarchic institution is one of “complacency”
Poor old Carmen
This update of a classic from the Royal Opera House is a reminder of why messing with great pieces is so risky
