Beethoven
Messing with the master’s work
Beethoven: Emperor Concerto; Brett Dean: A Winter’s Journey (Orchid)
Peers but not equals
Ferdinand Ries: Symphonies 1&2 (Ondine); Franz Clement: Solo violin works (Naxos)
Well-behaved Beethoven
Beethoven: Triple concerto and British folksongs (Decca)
The glorious Ninth
Relive the moments when music changed forever
Captivating concertos
Beethoven/Ravel: Concertos (Avanticlassic)
Beethoven’s piano maker
Album of the Week: Nannette Streicher’s Fortepiano (Gramola)
A genius who could say “no”
The things Beethoven never did
Ferdinand Ries: Piano Trio and Sextets (Hyperion)
Ludwig van Beethoven’s former secretary and pupil was no forgettable curiosity
Unfinished? Don’t start!
A new project to restore Beethoven’s incomplete symphony borders on pathological necromancy
Beethoven, Birtwistle: A bag of bagatelles (Wergo)
Those who listen to music with an open mind are going to have a ball with this
Shiva Naipaul
The younger brother of a controversial Nobel Prize winner who has been unjustly overlooked
The costs of assisted suicide
The trade-offs are real and extremely serious
Tough women take on the bad guys
When it comes to spy dramas and domestic angst, less is very definitely more
A rebel advance in Syria is nothing to cheer
You don’t have to sympathise with Assad to think that the alternative would be worse
Don’t bet on green energy
Groupthink has blinded us into backing solar and wind. Will a big short make us see sense?
The Church of England has to rebuild trust
The next Archbishop must love this church back into health
When the music stopped
A reflection on the inexorable decline of arts education and the rise of knee-jerk politics and managerialism
Don’t Cry for Me, Diego Garcia
A small island is in trouble, foreigners are probably up to no good, and the Tories are yomping to the rescue
Hoorah for winter!
Life comes alive again in October when you can start anticipating proper National Hunt racing
The restless life of a very bourgeois rebel
Gauguin was not an artist who lent himself to categorisation
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Kemi wants a correction, and Keir could appear on celebrity TV
