Classical Music
The tragedy of Radio 3
The centenary “celebration” of the BBC Singers summed up everything that has gone wrong
Worthy instrument
York Bowen, Willam Walton: Viola concertos (SWR Music)
When the music stopped
A reflection on the inexorable decline of arts education and the rise of knee-jerk politics and managerialism
Franco-Irish vigour
Augusta Holmès: Symphonic poems (CPO)
Forces of nature
Antonin Dvorak: Symphonies (Warner/Pentatone)
A full musical meal
An unforgettable concert experience
Illicit fun
Jonathan Leibowitz: Eastern Reflections (Delphian)
Messing with the master’s work
Beethoven: Emperor Concerto; Brett Dean: A Winter’s Journey (Orchid)
Anger and intuition
Mieczyslaw Weinberg: String quartets 6, 13, 15 (Chandos)
Schoenberg’s morning and night
Arnold Schoenberg: Expressionist Music (Orchid)
BBC Verify’s Bangladesh blunder
In trying to combat misinformation, the BBC has spread its own
The meaning of depoliticisation
How the establishment made political questions unanswerable
Stolen moments
Smoking is a precious social currency in a fast atomising world
Inflation and inflated expectations
To understand inflation, we must understand different kinds of inflation
The opportunism of anti-police activists
Continued agitation around the death of Chris Kaba is inexcusable
Release the hounds
The best university sport? Beagling
The death of Britannia Agoraia
Deindustrialisation has done damage even beyond the realms of economics
Why I, as a mother…
Being a mother can change our perspectives and priorities
Get smartphones out of school
Young people desperately need a break from social media
The right-on, left-wing oppressors
A flaw in the design of academic studies makes the Left appear less authoritarian than the Right
The Critic
No they haven’t put the mag on the silver screen just yet, but its still worth watching
