Album Review
Indulgent Italian treats
Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco: Complete string quartets (Naxos)
Illicit fun
Jonathan Leibowitz: Eastern Reflections (Delphian)
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)
Labour is betraying women
From benefits to crime, Keir is letting women down
Religion is here to stay
A new spirit of confidence and fearlessness characterises those who continue to believe
The hollowness of postliberalism
Its vagueness and sentimentality encourage political opportunism
The great British giveaway
The handover of the Chagos Islands reflects a wider lack of realism in UK foreign policy
Boris: the PM who could do no wrong
This must be in competition for the most inaccurate work of non-fiction since … well, since Johnson’s last book
Tragedy, comedy and an Italian parable
Three great novels capture a moment of change for society
Plane English
On pyjamas and private jets
Rocking the Reichstag
Women across the world have been protesting against the bizarre new German self-ID laws
Making a mockery of Labour
The ministers just can’t yet do chaos like the Tories could
Is Cheltenham beyond parody?
A books bash these days has to offer Geri and Geoff Hurst and that bloke out of Radiohead
Don’t bet on green energy
Groupthink has blinded us into backing solar and wind. Will a big short make us see sense?
