The Critics
Star of the sty
Christopher Silvester on a documentary with a solely animalistic cast
A series of sharp transactions
Anne McElvoy on how LBC branch out into podcasting and American podcasters bid for their share of British ears
Match of the dull
How Match of the Day needs modernising
Notes on a doomed affair
Norman Lebrecht on how Marion von Weber was both interesting and important to Mahler’s emergence
A life in focus
Director Betrand Tavernier was able to admire both blacklisted directors and those who named names
And the band played on…
The appointment of a chief conductor little affects the general performance of an orchestra
Hip-hop with a Weimar vibe
Bertolt Brecht’s didacticism puts off a lot of people who are sympathetic to a marxist world view
Odes to joy
Robert Thicknesse on Rossini’s extraordinary de-cluttering of the musical atmosphere
Back to the wall
Despite the fact East Germany has disappeared, it continues to live on in this outstanding trilogy
Crypto-art for cryptomillions
Digital art: the millennial trend