Album Review
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
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
Why the Conservatives will be anti-woke
Standing up to the thought police is key to making change
Which country?
Our rural landscape is much misunderstood
Don’t idolise Roger Scruton
Our reverence for the late thinker must not limit our imaginations
War returns to Kursk
Could the famous WW2 era battlefield be yet another military turning point?
The predictability of subverting expectations
What to expect when you’re expecting your expectations to be subverted
Escaping the digital dark age
We cannot rely on digital media to preserve our art and knowledge
Getting the creeps
How should we cope with the unsettling in everyday life?
Humble pie?
Ric Holden is painfully aware that he is only just Holden on to his seat
The Church of England has to rebuild trust
The next Archbishop must love this church back into health
Knife-edge of the Western world
Vilnius is a serene western capital on a critical eastern frontier
An orderly and civilised society
The biggest missing idea in British politics
