No more than curiosities
Bruno Walter: String quartet, piano quintet (CPO)
An epochal set
Nielsen: The Symphonies (DG)
The apple of my ear
Limitless choice and a rattle of regret
Pain, poise and passion
Erich Wolfgang Korngold: String quartets 1-3 (Naxos)
Glenn Gould’s musical laboratory
Glenn Gould: String quartet, opus 1 (CPO)
Music of the here and now
Valentin Silvestrov: Silent Songs (DG)
Once more with Gustavo
“Orchestra makes right call” shock!
A major talent
Missy Mazzoli: Dark with excessive bright (BIS)
Captivating concertos
Beethoven/Ravel: Concertos (Avanticlassic)
Honky-tonking around
Yuja Wang: The American Album (DG)
The problem with public sector procurement
The Social Value Act has brought questionable benefits and serious costs
Why Britain needs more empty homes
The UK’s housing sector is straining at the seams; empty units and second houses are a sign of economic health
Open season
I’m trying to stick to wild game, venison and native beef— and monogamy too
TransForming London
You deserve to be inclusioned in London’s progressive future
Blue de grâce?
The next election could spell doom for the Conservative Party
The sculptor’s funeral
The death of Imogen Stuart represents the passing of an Ireland that built, rather than destroyed
Conscious decoupling
Some people consider ideas on their own terms; for others they are inextricable from context
Fine art versus luxury goods
The auction houses’ love expensive brands
Train lines to nowhere
The farcical naming of new overground lines has exposed the fragility of progressivism
The emptiness of hype
A cultural legacy depends on far more than passing enthusiasm
The human condition, in Wales
The universal and the particular sit awkwardly in this Cardiff exhibition
