Album Review
Immense energies
Grazyna Bacewicz: Piano concertos &c (Ondine)
An epochal violinist
Eugene Ysaye: Solo violin sonatas (Deutsche Grammophon)
Too formal for the pub
Mr Händel im pub: Baroque meets folk (Arcantus)
Unenticing overtures
Rautavaara: 3rd piano concerto (Bis); Overtures from Finland (Chandos)
Contemplating infinity
Franz Liszt: Transcendental Etudes (Steinway)
Delicate decadence
A tantalising selection of songs
New work, sounding old
A disappointing new collection
An unreviewable album
The music is beautiful; the context is not
No more than curiosities
Bruno Walter: String quartet, piano quintet (CPO)
An epochal set
Nielsen: The Symphonies (DG)
Roger Scruton’s naive nationalism
Cultural nationalism is an ill-fitting model for the modern nation state
Exilic yearnings
Miklos Rozsa: violin concerto (LSO Live)
The second life of Tracey Emin
A brush with death has revitalised her work
People of Colour television
How to unpick the progressive contradictions of colour-blind casting
Minimum pricing, maximum annoyance
No one wins when the minimum price for alcohol rises
Foul play
David Peace’s new novel is about much more than football
Party in the U.S.S.R.
Shortages, queues and giant slogan-laden banners were the order of the day as the party faithful gathered
The right-on, left-wing oppressors
A flaw in the design of academic studies makes the Left appear less authoritarian than the Right
Blue-collar brilliance
1970s Pittsburgh wasn’t just a steel town: it was the steel town
No, Churchill wasn’t the bad guy
The debate over Britain’s wartime leader has been reignited by an ignorant revisionist account
Bursary school
Refuse to play the poverty card
