Classical Music
And the band played on
Cash crisis in the arts — what’s new?
Musical no man’s lands
Two violin concertos fail to inspire
Against the relegation of Record Review
Why is Radio 3 mistreating one of its greatest assets?
A great conductor leaves the stage
No conductor from China or Japan ever commanded world orchestras before Seiji Ozawa, and none has since matched his impact
A discordant song
Classical music may be the worst casualty of identitarian politics
The love that dare not speak its name
Classical music has been tarnished with the dread word “elitism”
Playfulness and tedium
Stravinsky, Petrushka; Debussy, Jeux and Prelude (Decca)
What became of Tchaikovsky?
Tchaikovsky: 5th symphony etc (ICA Classics)
Essential all-embracing warmth
Gidon Kremer: Songs of Fate (ECM)
The elusive Seiji Ozawa was Japan’s greatest peacemaker
Farewell not just to a conductor but to a generous man
The truth is out there
Henry Staunton is dismissed as dangerously “erratic” by the powers that be, but he may just be telling the truth, no matter how weird
How to lose an empire
The rise and fall of the Sassoon family, whose yearning for social acceptance brought titles at the cost of success
The erotic art book banned by a pope
A rich tale of great artists, pornography and the papacy has made I Modi one of the most fabled of all books
The unromantic truth about tortured poets
Taylor Swift is idealising the grim realities of the lives of poets
Women in prisons deserve better
Classifying male criminals as women adds insult to injury
Why the Intellectual Dark Web has failed
Internet ideologues have yet to formulate a coherent vision to turn their ideas into action
Parliamentary sovereignty (extreme edition)
Rwanda is safe. How do we know? Because we said so.
Operettas for the apocalypse
As we career merrily ever deeper into the end-times, what is the appropriate soundtrack for civilisational collapse?
Diversity is not our strength
The Khan Review reveals a society needlessly splintered along ethno-religious lines
How trans activists captured the hate crime agenda
The “hate crime” agenda is based on bad policing and worse politics
Silence speaks volumes
Lee Anderson speaks out — or, at least, gets someone else to do it for him
