Album Review
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)
Well-behaved Beethoven
Beethoven: Triple concerto and British folksongs (Decca)
Polish strings
Grazyna Bacewicz: Symphonies 3 &4; Concerto for string orchestra (both on Chandos)
Having a bad Bey
If you’re going to jettison the essence of the song, why even bother?
Elgar’s excellence
Elgar: Symphonies (Halle/Oehms)
Musical no man’s lands
Two violin concertos fail to inspire
Bad tradwife manifesto
From have it all feminism to tradwife influencers, women are being given impossible ideals and taught to refuse limitations
Confessions of a left-wing Pope
Life: My Story Through History by Pope Francis with Fabio Marchese Ragona
The blame game
Some terrible villain has made the Conservative Party unpopular. But who could it be?
Lawless and disordered
British police and courts increasingly struggle to maintain public order
The scarlet letter
A touchy-feely Labour government must embrace the ugly reality of business
Stubbs at flay
His controlled charnel house gave the painter a peerless understanding of horses
Anatomy of a populist cynic
As Spain’s national-conservatives get outflanked by “Alvise”, Europe’s “new right” would do well to watch the fringes, too
The beginning and end of conversation
A catholic sift through humankind’s advent and our eventual, formative babbling and beyond.
British broadcasting capitulation
Editorial standards have been thrown out, and anti-white discrimination embraced at the BBC
The slow death of public spaces
Pointless regulations are sucking joy from British life
Nigel Farage had a point on Ukraine
Putin is the aggressor, yes, but Western states still behaved irresponsibly
