Album Review
Music of the here and now
Valentin Silvestrov: Silent Songs (DG)
Captivating concertos
Beethoven/Ravel: Concertos (Avanticlassic)
Honky-tonking around
Yuja Wang: The American Album (DG)
A welter of emotions
Rachmaninov: 2nd symphony (Chandos/Vox)
Unveiled enigmas
Shostakovich: Works unveiled (BIS)
Beethoven’s piano maker
Album of the Week: Nannette Streicher’s Fortepiano (Gramola)
Instruments of shock and awe
Jean Sibelius/Arne Nordheim; The Tempest (Naxos/LAWO)
Englishness with an aftertaste
The pleasures of cowpats
An enemy of the best
Nothing routine, showy or ill-considered
Outwards and inwards
Drawing the ear into every era of western music
The truth about Notting Hill Carnival
We should be more honest about the dark side of the event
There is no “Woke Right”
A new attempt to delineate the boundaries of acceptable opinion has failed
In the city
From the suburbs to the estates
White male conservatives for identity politics
Kemi Badenoch’s supporters should have fewer illusions
Labour’s favourite banker
Questions can be asked about the relationship between the Labour Party and Anthony Watson
The empty road to serfdom
“Vision Zero” is a tyrannical anti-driving dream
Kemi Badenoch has a problem with the truth
From wokeness, to housing, to immigration her words don’t match the facts
Not a dull phrase
Ethel Smyth: 2nd sonata &c (Delphian)
The Old Vic under siege
The King’s favourite Shakespearean need hardly trouble himself with such dreary details
Defending an outdoor smoke
There is no rational argument for prohibition
Shiva Naipaul
The younger brother of a controversial Nobel Prize winner who has been unjustly overlooked
