Album Review
Rage captured to perfection
Chamber symphonies were a neglected genre revived during the Covid shutdowns
Jiving in the ruins
This dazzling album features young composers in hyperinflationary Berlin
The missing dimension
Warning: contains passages of symphonic transcendence
Not so easy listening
Janacek, Brahms, Bartok: Violin sonatas (Alpha-Classics/Outhere)
Album of the year
Rich pickings in dark times
Our ultimate moment
Outstanding art for troubled times
Make Mozart great again
Music that lifts the heart
Playing that pulls no punches
Kholodenko is in the elite of classical pianists
Defiantly playful
A composer worth discovering and rediscovering
Major and minor talent
Rott’s influence, Mahler’s genius
The Road to the Cass Review — (4) Keira Bell and Paul Conrathe
The dark realities of gender medicine come to light
Fun in the sun
Summer finally appeared for the most civilised drinks event of the season
Foxy old Labour
Going after private schools would be an act of pointless institutional vandalism
Hungary: treading a fine line
Can it stay equidistant from the great powers while maintaining trade connectivity?
Sweet magic in Hokkaido
Sushi for breakfast, crisps for dessert and delicious chocolate
Music for a warm bath
Bloch, Bruch, Dohnanyi (Claves)
A stern telling-off
Rachel Reeves has had enough of these misbehaving Tories
Why are our politicians afraid of politics?
The depoliticisation of policy should concern us all
Labour won’t survive unless it boosts living standards
People need hope that things can eventually get better
Who hears the voiceless?
Leaving unborn children without legal protections would be an ethical disgrace
The fallacy of “British values”
Nationhood cannot be reduced to abstractions
