Honky-tonking around
Yuja Wang: The American Album (DG)
A welter of emotions
Rachmaninov: 2nd symphony (Chandos/Vox)
Unveiled enigmas
Shostakovich: Works unveiled (BIS)
Beethoven’s piano maker
Album of the Week: Nannette Streicher’s Fortepiano (Gramola)
A genius who could say “no”
The things Beethoven never did
Instruments of shock and awe
Jean Sibelius/Arne Nordheim; The Tempest (Naxos/LAWO)
Englishness with an aftertaste
The pleasures of cowpats
No ordinary musicologist
Krzysztof Meyer, Dmitri Shostakovich: Cello-piano sonatas (Kaleidos)
An enemy of the best
Nothing routine, showy or ill-considered
A college in tune with the times
How music colleges need to adjust to the twenty-first century
How capitalism gave women leisure
Feminist anti-capitalists are spinning delusions about economic history
Hobbs recalled
Ninety-five years on, Hobbs still holds a record that is unlikely ever to be broken
The Grand Migrant Hotel Rwanda
All are welcome at Kagame’s eccentric migrant hostelry, and don’t worry about the roving deathsquads: they’re harmless
The joy of pets
Pet ownership is one of life’s simple pleasures, but it also lifts the soul
Prepare for takeoff
Masters of the Air is a visually impressive aerial WW2 adventure with the potential to go far
Chinese whispers
Oliver Dowden’s tough talk on Chinese hacking is less than wholly convincing
Love in a remotely-controlled climate
If we outsource our decisions to
machines, we will be less capable
of navigating our own feelings
The poverty of miners’ strike nostalgia
We should not romanticise a futile and sometimes thuggish struggle
Chasing votes on foreign soil
Viktor Orbán has created a pipeline of support for his Fidesz political project by granting full citizenship to thousands of ethnic Hungarians in Romania
The other Camus
The controversial author’s work is filled not just with anger but with autumnal regret
More than just a club
The four men who founded Aston Villa could not have imagined what would follow
