Alexander Tchaikovsky
What became of Tchaikovsky?
Tchaikovsky: 5th symphony etc (ICA Classics)
Don’t boycott Russian culture
It damages rather than defends civilisation
Alexander Tchaikovsky: Quarantine Symphony (Toccata Classics)
Alexander Tchaikovsky’s Quarantine Symphony triggers a subtle, wordless response to the things we are experiencing
Ukraine’s cross-cultural contradictions
Has Ukraine overcome its legacy of historical antisemitism?
A cut above
Above all is the quietude, broken only by the snipping chatter of several scissors
Common prayer
Britain, and her monarchy, have a language fitted for times of joy and sorrow alike — so why does the Church of England make such poor use of our traditional liturgy?
And the band played on
Cash crisis in the arts — what’s new?
An array of civilised music
Walter Kaufmann: 3rd piano concerto, 3rd symphony &c. (CPO)
The war on noticing in modern Britain
How DEI initiatives and the worldview behind them dull people’s natural perceptiveness
Do not sanction the truth
Stating biological facts should not be cause for heavy-handed complaints proceedings
The curious case of the “Gaylor” affair
Whatever the framing, the sexuality is the story
No, Liz Truss did not crash the economy
The Conservatives should be brave enough to take on this stupid talking point
The deep wisdom of rootedness
Society has lost touch with the people and places who helped to shape it in the first place
The City’s lights are dimming
The Square Mile is increasingly at risk of becoming an irrelevance
