Rozsa’s regret
Miklos Rozsa: Orchestral works (Capriccio)
Stravinsky’s aching quality
Stravinsky, Bartok, Martinu: Works for violin and orchestra (BIS)
Masterful pianism
Bartok, Janacek, Szymanowski (Warner)
Superficial pleasures
A te, Puccini (Signum)
Bruckner’s delicate thunder
Anton Bruckner: 7th symphony (BR Klassik)
Modernism for the many
Lutoslawski: Concerto for Orchestra, Partita &c (Ondine)
Album of the year
The best of an inspiringly musical 2023
What’s missing in Bradley Cooper’s Maestro
The film should not have ignored the political and musical context to Bernstein’s life
Music of hypnotic power
Thomas Larcher: The Living Mountain (ECM New Series)
Bruckner: Anton … and on
Bruckner and the German soul
Subscribe to save the BBC
A radical new solution to the problem of the BBC’s outmoded licence fee that could ensure more high-quality programming
The great British giveaway
The handover of the Chagos Islands reflects a wider lack of realism in UK foreign policy
Humble pie?
Ric Holden is painfully aware that he is only just Holden on to his seat
Chill message of Booker shortlist
The contempt of publishers for middle-class life and values is diminishing the novel
David Lammy’s Caucasus catastrophe
The Foreign Secretary’s blunder has exposed the hollowness of “progressive realism”
In search of forgotten heroes
The Church has consigned to oblivion those who risked all to end the slave trade
The fables of Davos Man
Yuval Noah Harari has written another long book with little wisdom
The 300 Years’ War
How conflict over land ownership shaped conflict over Ireland
The horror of 7 October on film
The killers’ headset footage, CCTV, interviews with survivors and heart-rending last messages
Land of fire and blood
The detours, if at times distracting, are worth the price of this historical journey
The right to learn at home
Home education is a powerful alternative to the box-ticking of state schooling
