Classical Music
Rock star variations
Bows and Arrows: The Autobiography by Julian Lloyd Webber
Pleasure and persuasion
Jean Sibelius: Symphonies 1-7 (Ondine)
All the Mendelssohn you will ever need
Mendelssohn: Symphonies and Oratorios (Deutsche Grammophon)
Fisticuffs over the fourth movement
When did classical music become so disturbingly polite?
Hope and stories
Bicinia (Claves)
A bore and a balm
Inferno: Behzod Abdurimov (Alpha Classics)
Getting a handle on Handel
Robert Thicknesse and friends reflect on Handel and his heyday
Alkan the Awesome
Alkan: Complete organ works, vol. 1 (Signum Classics)
Classical musicians should spread their wings
We need more collaboration and more experimentation for classical music to flourish
Vivid nostalgia
The Cunning Little Vixen, Irish National Opera, Hawk’s Well Theatre, Sligo
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The paté of the Land
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The next government must finally drag Britain out of the European Union’s tractor beam
The EU’s immigration asymmetry
Ten years on, the EU still hasn’t learned Brexit’s hard lesson on migration
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Andy Burnham’s immigration double game
Andy Burnham might make sceptical noises about mass migration but they mean nothing in practice
The RAM should face the music
Why the Royal Academy of Music shuts of pupils from private schools
Spaceships, ghost ships and sheep
The secret sauce of Project Hail Mary: it’s a laugh
The right does need religion
Christianity is politically valuable as well as, you know, true
When can we believe what we read?
Technology can make knowing the truth more difficult — but we should always have asked more questions about what we read
No, the King has not converted
A bizarre conspiracy theory
that Charles III is a Muslim is
easily shown to be false