Album Review
Hans Winterberg: orchestral works (Capriccio)
The lost sounds of a German Jewish composer
Reynaldo Hahn: Poèmes & Valses (Hyperion)
This unfamiliar collection is the most enjoyable piano album of the year so far
Allan Pettersson: Barefoot songs (BIS)
Sweden scorned the composer who could have been its greatest
Gustav Mahler: 4th symphony (Pentatone)
A new recording of Mahler’s smallest symphony is “indispensable” to connoisseurs of his music
British piano concertos (Lyrita); British music for strings #3 (CPO)
A prawn cocktail of exceptionally competent music to enjoy on Easter Sunday
Rachmaninov: Piano Sonata No 1 / Moments Musicaux
A new release of Rachmaninov’s first piano sonata deserves more than five stars
Metamorphosen (Chandos)
John Wilson and the Sinfonia of London reinterpret Metamorphosen chillingly as elegy
Ligeti and Kodaly: Lux Aeterna (OUR Recordings)
The otherworldly and the down-to-earth
Harrison Birtwistle: Chamber works (BIS)
The British composer — still writing at 87 years of age — is an acquired taste
Schulhoff, Popov: String quartets (QBT)
A Baedeker tour of Europe’s miseries, amidst the outrage in Ukraine
Old Ireland stirs
The defeat handed to Dublin’s progressive establishment was a reminder of an older Ireland
Red dawn
Following the locals, a shattered Conservative party will need to get used to losing
Cultural Christianity and the vulgar wisdom of memes
Dawkins is caught between the pure idea of rationalism, and the messy meme of cultural Christianity
We have to wake up on defence
Britain cannot act as if war will never come
The meaningless models of “public health”
Another brick in the “public health” fortress of unreality
Why is the US facing a “crisis of credibility”?
It is a crisis that has been created by the hubris of the establishment
The false prophets of war and turmoil
All eight of Whatmore’s subjects would have been astounded by the
stability of the British state through the 19th century
Less than an animal?
It is surely wrong that animal foetuses enjoy more protection under the law than human ones
Of course women support women
Men are angry about where women’s money is going? What’s new?
Weak, flawed, limited; an opportunity missed
Sanghera really should have devoted more attention to the pre-Western history in Empireworld
J.K. Rowling does it again
Why does one woman’s opinion cause so much outrage?
