Album Review
Major and minor talent
Rott’s influence, Mahler’s genius
The bore of the world
Give this one a miss
Schumann/Mahler: Symphonies 1&2 (Naxos)
Schumann cannot be ignored
Ralph Vaughan Williams: Sixth Symphony (Hyperion/ICA Classics)
As shattering as any work of its era
Gustav Mahler: 5th symphony (Pentatone)
Its ethos in Mahler remains inimitable
Franz Schubert: String quintet/Quartettsatz (Chandos)
Intimations of life’s fragility
Jean Sibelius: Orchestral songs (LAWO)
The themes are cruel and cold
John Adams: Slonimsky’s Earbox (Alpha)
Among his best work
Nico Muhly: Stranger (AVIE)
This new album of three works offers quiet empathy more than overwhelming emotion
Olivier Messiaen: Quartet for the end of time (OUR)
Messiaen’s quartet, first performed in a freezing barracks in 1941, is a thing of great beauty
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Losing control of the narrative
The British establishment no longer sets the terms of public debate over migration
A below-par Riley is still better than most
The Palm House by
Gwendoline Riley; My Death by Lisa
Tuttle; Still Talking by Lore Segal
The price is right
Stories about outrageously profligate eating have the appeal of scandal
Leaving it all in the ring
The great British bullfighting hopeful, Alexander Paul
We need a loud revival
The dream of a “quiet revival” always misunderstood the problem faced by British Christians
Digging for gold
La fanciulla del West, Opera Holland Park
Brexit was not an act of economic self-harm
Whatever you have heard, UK-EU trade is doing just fine
North Korea’s rogue state development
How Kim Jong Un is embracing the modern world
Seeing colour
Donald Locke, Resistant Forms at Camden Art Centre
From an entitlement state to an investment state
How to achieve a pro-social and pro-market economy
Respect for the quarry
Can we love the things we kill?
Get ready for the worst World Cup ever
FIFA is scoring a pathetic own goal with its treatment of football