On Music
A worthy heiress to Princess Ida
Where has originality and character gone in the art of Violin playing?
The sadder side of summer
Tragedy struck Gustav Mahler, the archetypal summer composer, in 1907
The welcome sound of silence
For three days I listened to nothing but birdsong, marvelling at the variety and the volume
Lifetimes of self-isolation
Composing in seclusion
Welcome to the unfrozen North
How Canada reinvented its musical prowess
Unleash this heavenly voice
The role of music in Jewish worship has acquired a sudden topicality with the involvement of two major record labels
Tapping into history
As soon as you enter Idagio.com you can kiss your working day goodbye
High notes go wrong
Flying is a macho thing for musicians. It shows they are in demand and living the good life
Was Plácido a pest?
Domingo is far from the monster that America’s #MeToo movement has made of him
Who’d want to be a critic?
Criticism has died at London’s newspaper
Lukashenko clings on
Belarusian protestors are a more potent weapon against Lukashenko than Brussels ever has been
Auf Wiedersehen, Britain
A German radio broadcaster on what he’s learnt about the British
Goodfellas at 30
‘As far back as I can remember, I always wanted to be a gangster’.
Had cake, ate cake
Why Boris won’t allow other people to enjoy the things he has
At last, I get to join the class war
Down with the mangies, the most craven and unfree of ruling classes
Brought to Book: James Marriott
Larman on the Editor hounded off Twitter for saying male novelists are being excluded
Back to the future
Trainsplaining a new world order
Making the grade
View from Oxford: there may be lessons to be learned from this year’s fiasco
Turkey: neither Neo-Ottoman nor Universal Islamist
Western leaders are misconstruing the nature of Turkey’s government and its mission at home and abroad
John Williams in Vienna (DG)
Zero stars for the vacuous Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra