Music for troubled souls
NIGUN (SWR Music)
An end-of-the-world air
Martinu: quartets/Kapralova: songs (Supraphon/Chandos)
Wanted: classical music influencers
Expert, well-dressed, wisecracking reviewers once delivered first-night juice
The only Chopianist I care to listen to
Chopin: Mazurkas (Linn)
Tranquil and haunted
Arvo Pärt: And I heard a voice (ECM)
Remembering Christoph von Dohnanyi
The former Cleveland Orchestra conductor died on Saturday at the age of 95
Transcending misery
Galina Ustvolskaya: Symphonies 1-5 (BIS)
Go get this record!
Arirang (Orchid)
No relationship with the keyboard
Pierre Boulez/Alfred Schnittke: Piano works (Naxos/BIS)
A riveting selection of itinerant tunes
Gypsy Melodies (La dolce volta)
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A chaplain’s vindication
The case of Dr Bernard Randall has exposed the rot in our institutions
Amnesty irrational
Gender identity ideologues cannot get away with baseless smears any more
The myth of banned books
If transgression is fun and easy, it is probably not transgressive
The case against recognising Somaliland
The Somaliland lobby is being dangerously naive about the realities of the region
Cringing at the cliffedge
How British satire, and British politics, became painfully unfunny
Institutional feminism against women
The likes of Julia Gillard and Jess Phillips have enabled misogyny
Not so good after all
Can left-leaning journalists finally acknowledge the challenges British society faces?
Deciphering the royal dress code
Fashion, in royal hands, became a form of branding
Faith in fakes
Baudrillard warned that politics would become a world of signs detached from reality. Manchesterism suggests he was right
The name game
Nominative determinism is a rich seam to be mined in sport
When compassion kills
Decriminalising vagrancy is no act of kindness
Ice and fire
Ben Stokes has had a truly exceptional career
These violent delights
Pagliacci made the murder the true apex of the show
Taxing the lights on
Miliband’s new levy undermines the very investment needed to bring energy prices down
RIP New Labour?
Keir Starmer’s failure should mark a decisive break with a failed consensus