Album Review
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
A guaranteed crowd pleaser
Let the brass section blow cobwebbed memories to kingdom come
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
Food for thoughtlessness
The march of the public health puritans continues
The expensive problem with the minimum wage
Higher wages for some, perhaps, but joblessness for others
Their work here is done
British politicians are very proud of their role in Syria, whatever it was
Which country?
Our rural landscape is much misunderstood
The dangerous lure of Europe
We must disincentivise economic migration to European states
Splashing the cash
On the complex relationship between art and money
Pandæmonium
Better to reign in hell than serve in government
Sophocles’s lack-of-foresight saga
Families will feud, from the BC era to 2024
Stick ‘em up
Has the culture war been won?
Ageing gracelessly?
A new book on care is filled with empirical insights but short on rhetorical power
Kemi Badenoch won’t save the Conservatives
Her radical credentials are based on pure PR
