Album Review
A Soviet revelation
David Oistrakh: The Warner Remastered Edition (58CDs, 3DVDs)
Lebrecht’s Album of the Year
Not just a great record but an essential one
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)
What do Labour think a conversion therapy is?
There has to be a middle ground between complete denial and complete affirmation
An open letter on academic free speech
Calls for more intellectual openness are not a defence of Islamists and Holocaust deniers. A response to Mark Ferguson MP
Cardinal win
Conclave is a political drama and a closed-room mystery rolled into one
The personal has become far too political
Something has gone very wrong when we are acutely aware of politics
Life amid the ruins
Any captured, destroyed city, offers the same problems for the new owners
Toasting a maestro
Stranded passengers emerged bewildered into the night of the living dead
An irreversible step
If Britain embraces euthanasia for the terminally ill, it won’t end there
Scruton and the roots of modern conservatism
Roger Scruton’s path from sophisticated soirées to a squalid Fleet Street pub
Public sector pay
Bumper pay rises for doctors and teachers are bound to result in higher inflation
The Church of England’s race to the bottom
The Church of England should not be putting ideology before history
Kemi Badenoch won’t save the Conservatives
Her radical credentials are based on pure PR
