Album Review
Not a dull phrase
Ethel Smyth: 2nd sonata &c (Delphian)
Exilic yearnings
Miklos Rozsa: violin concerto (LSO Live)
Hi-energy nutrients
Schoenfield, Vivier, Bartok &c (Accentus Music)
Poor conduct
Shostakovich: Symphonies 4-6 (Decca)
More than just noise
Berg, Schoenberg, Webern: Piano works (Warner)
Franco-Irish vigour
Augusta Holmès: Symphonic poems (CPO)
Forces of nature
Antonin Dvorak: Symphonies (Warner/Pentatone)
Enthralling eclecticism
Roberto Gerhard: Don Quixote, &c. (Chandos)
Piano in wartime
War poems (Somm)
Indulgent Italian treats
Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco: Complete string quartets (Naxos)
We have to rebalance civil society
To influence power, we must organise
Crossing the public health Rubicon
Are there any limits to statist safetyism?
October letters
Misquoting Shakespeare and a rounded sense of humour
The tragedy of Radio 3
The centenary “celebration” of the BBC Singers summed up everything that has gone wrong
Ultra processed arguments
Public health commentators cannot seem to decide what is safe to eat
The afterlife of Father Jerzy Popiełuszko
Reflections on forty years since his death shook communist Poland
They call it Poppy love
Poppy is, simply, a dog who knows what she wants
Izzy Hardcastle
Ornament of the book-world
Cardinal win
Conclave is a political drama and a closed-room mystery rolled into one
The effects of Brexit are still being misreported
A new paper has received a lot of attention — all of it undeserved
Scottish independence is dead, for now
But there is no room for complacency or appeasement
