Album Review
Great big rain showers
C Schumann/Grieg: Piano concertos (Signum)
Giving Mozart a makeover
Mozart: The Salzburg Project (Warner)
Messing with the master’s work
Beethoven: Emperor Concerto; Brett Dean: A Winter’s Journey (Orchid)
Thriller vs filler
The album is back and music is better for it
Anger and intuition
Mieczyslaw Weinberg: String quartets 6, 13, 15 (Chandos)
Schoenberg’s morning and night
Arnold Schoenberg: Expressionist Music (Orchid)
Too measured for its own good
Lukas Foss: 1st symphony &c (Naxos)
Peers but not equals
Ferdinand Ries: Symphonies 1&2 (Ondine); Franz Clement: Solo violin works (Naxos)
Sensitivity of a high order
Sibelius and Prokofiev: Violin concertos (Decca)
Surprise and tension
Czech Songs: Magdalena Kozena (Pentatone)
The war of words over Estonia’s Soviet monuments
Despite three decades of independence, Estonia’s Soviet past is still a cause of division
A commanding life
Iron Imperator: Roman Grand Strategy Under Tiberius. By Iskander Rehman
In the beginning: neither fish nor fowl
Reading Genesis by Marilynne Robinson
When in Spain…
…gorge on Iberian delicacies
Reclaiming freedom in the arts
Great art that speaks of today cannot be made in a climate of fear
Summer for sale
Cricket has always bent with the winds of change
Why are our politicians afraid of politics?
The depoliticisation of policy should concern us all
Nigel Farage had a point on Ukraine
Putin is the aggressor, yes, but Western states still behaved irresponsibly
The Gradel Quadrangles at New College, Oxford
Postmodernity perches precariously in the porter’s lodge
Why civility matters, even when it’s hard
Swallowing our pride is better than political violence
Music for a warm bath
Bloch, Bruch, Dohnanyi (Claves)
