Outwards and inwards
Drawing the ear into every era of western music
A hundred shades of autumn leaves
He grips the attention with every phrase
A guaranteed crowd pleaser
Let the brass section blow cobwebbed memories to kingdom come
Rage captured to perfection
Chamber symphonies were a neglected genre revived during the Covid shutdowns
Jiving in the ruins
This dazzling album features young composers in hyperinflationary Berlin
The missing dimension
Warning: contains passages of symphonic transcendence
Not so easy listening
Janacek, Brahms, Bartok: Violin sonatas (Alpha-Classics/Outhere)
Album of the year
Rich pickings in dark times
Our ultimate moment
Outstanding art for troubled times
Inquest into the death of ENO
The cause of death, in this coroner’s verdict, is a prolonged failure to address reality
No joke
Scotland’s Hate Crime Act is absurd, but nobody’s laughing
The age of the news influencer
TikTok reveals a broader existential crisis facing the media and our consumption of the news
The dangerous excesses of breaking boundaries
There is a double standard on trans people and violence
The royals needs better PR
We have seen too many royal disasters
Left and right hooks
Keir Starmer and Rishi Sunak exchanged sloppy blows as Lee Anderson found a warm welcome in the stands
Are Labour the real racists?
Conservatives should stop trying to play the victim on identitarian grounds
Why the Intellectual Dark Web has failed
Internet ideologues have yet to formulate a coherent vision to turn their ideas into action
Young people are not as pro-immigration as you think
The idea that young people are uniformly “woke” is a silly myth
Musical no man’s lands
Two violin concertos fail to inspire
Laugh to hide the tears
Rishi Sunak was desperate to appear on top form before the Liaison Committee
There is nothing wrong with rules
People can put down their phones for the duration of concert
