Album Review
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)
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)
Portugal and the missing goats
The roots of environmental disasters can be odder than they look
Religion without mercy
Progressivism has all the zeal of Christianity, but none of its emphasis on forgiveness
Take a bow
This season’s must-have neckwear is a sartorial two-fingered salute to life
Get smartphones out of school
Young people desperately need a break from social media
Spotify Wrapped is good for the soul
On the joys of exploring a year in music
Tom Stoppard’s Hampstead drama
Best not try to memorise this deceptive Connect Four of relationships — just get into the flow
The horror of 7 October on film
The killers’ headset footage, CCTV, interviews with survivors and heart-rending last messages
Land of slippery slopes
Does anybody really believe assisted suicide will stop at the terminally ill?
A festival of losing
Will the Republic of Ireland ever face up to its problems?
The Church of England has to rebuild trust
The next Archbishop must love this church back into health
Progressive realism
Can Labour’s new foreign policy doctrine work in our troubled world?
