Album
Great big rain showers
C Schumann/Grieg: Piano concertos (Signum)
Anger and intuition
Mieczyslaw Weinberg: String quartets 6, 13, 15 (Chandos)
Schoenberg’s morning and night
Arnold Schoenberg: Expressionist Music (Orchid)
Too measured for its own good
Lukas Foss: 1st symphony &c (Naxos)
Peers but not equals
Ferdinand Ries: Symphonies 1&2 (Ondine); Franz Clement: Solo violin works (Naxos)
Surprise and tension
Czech Songs: Magdalena Kozena (Pentatone)
Well-behaved Beethoven
Beethoven: Triple concerto and British folksongs (Decca)
Playfulness and tedium
Stravinsky, Petrushka; Debussy, Jeux and Prelude (Decca)
What became of Tchaikovsky?
Tchaikovsky: 5th symphony etc (ICA Classics)
Essential all-embracing warmth
Gidon Kremer: Songs of Fate (ECM)
Twilight of the gods
The eclipse of the gilded 1980s generation can be seen as a welcome changing of the guard
Hurray for the Murrays
It is easy to forget how mediocre British tennis was before the Murrays
The case against “Zero Seats”
Despite everything, some Conservatives still deserve to win
Modernism at the opera house
Everything sacred and beautiful must be dragged through the mud
AI and the great data robbery
Silicon Valley has stolen huge amounts of original material in order to “train” its GPT models
The way forward for conservatives
We must have bold politicians who really believe in the things they promise
Boris comes down from the mountain
Is he the Tory messiah, or just a very naughty boy?
Is military history, history?
Tanks, but no tanks
Skin-walkers of the state
How absolute power lurks within liberalism
Contra Hitchens on the election
It was reasonable not to vote to prevent a Labour majority
Don’t ask WhatsApp
Millions of messages, and sick of it
