On Music
Pomp and circumstance
A Venetian Coronation, The Gabrieli Consort, St John’s Smith Square
Can Putin’s conductor redeem himself?
Gergiev’s road to redemption
Music’s moral conscience
The violinist Gidon Kremer stands brilliantly apart from the rest of the music world
The concert hall of the future
A performance space without walls or limits
Unfinished? Don’t start!
A new project to restore Beethoven’s incomplete symphony borders on pathological necromancy
High-voltage Haitink recalled
Bernard Haitink, who died last month, was a conducting master
Spare us the skintight sonata
If Yuja Wang were to strip everything right down to the music, she could be a sensation
Passing on the batons
The future of conducting is looking bright — everywhere except in Russia and America
Savour the silence
The first duty of a conductor is to imagine a world without noise
Vienna’s hapless missing link
Zemlinsky’s music is arresting and his ideas fertile and diverse, but he often goes unnoticed
Doubling down on a fraud
Recalling the murky role played by civil rights leader Rev Al Sharpton in a notorious faked abduction case
Never trust a publisher
Once Twitter takes against you, they will wash their hands of you, Pontius Pilate-style
“No-fault” divorce undermines marriage
Why is the government making it easier to break up families?
It’s a 10 from me
Lunching at one of Soho’s finest as it celebrates a decade of unassuming excellence
Brass and bullshit
Influencer is just another name for snake-oil salesman
Point man
Never trust a man with a six-point plan
Remembering Richard Shepherd
Barry Legg and Sir Bill Cash discuss the former Conservative MP
Winner take all
Putin learned post-Cold War warfare from the West
A Hitch in time
Our Falklands correspondent muses on the importance of the war to the late journalist
Playing pipeline politics
The Gulf countries may not be reliable partners against Russia
Le Pen surging as France prepares to go to the polls
France’s establishment parties are nowhere in Sunday’s election