Album
Wit as well as social conscience
Avril Quartet: Claires Obscures (Etcetera)
Joyous genre-bending
Milestones (Signum Classics)
Two faces of America
Copland: 3rd symphony, Walker 5th (LSO Live)
Alkan the Awesome
Alkan: Complete organ works, vol. 1 (Signum Classics)
A cherishable dream
Elgar: The Dream of Gerontius (Hyperion)
The start of something new
Kurt Weill: Love Life (Capriccio)
Music for troubled souls
NIGUN (SWR Music)
Haba listen
Alois Haba: Complete piano music (Supraphon)
Prodigiously original
Alkan: Early works (Piano Classics)
Unjustly overlooked but somewhat undercooked
Elsa Barraine: 2 symphonies &c.(CPO)
Most Read
Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
How to fix the economy
A repentant ex-financial trader tells all
Cloaked Crusader
Richard I: valiant hero of Romance but also a perfidious, self-serving lord
Election objections
Andy Burnham doesn’t need a general election mandate
Save our green and pleasant land
It’s time to stop ruining Britain’s countryside with drab, identikit houses and instead build real places with focus, heart and purpose
Fair vs free elections
The grey zone between interference and counter-interference is becoming Europe’s new political frontier
Knowingly crass and conflicted
This American culture is hegemonic because even to steal from it is to propel it
The summer chill
Cool soups for hot days
Burying their heads in the ash
The battle against the illicit tobacco market has not been won
Adventures in Soho
All the pleasures of roughing it and very little of the actual rough
The Falklands tragedy
British weakness is endangering the Falklands
When all you have is a Hermer
Why Lord Hermer is a strange fit as Attorney General
Damaged brains and troubled souls
Dana White, of all people, should not be so dismissive of the salience of mental suffering