Classical Music
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)
Too measured for its own good
Lukas Foss: 1st symphony &c (Naxos)
Sensitivity of a high order
Sibelius and Prokofiev: Violin concertos (Decca)
Finnish on a high note
Now, how the Helsinki has this happened?
Surprise and tension
Czech Songs: Magdalena Kozena (Pentatone)
Word pictures at a gallery
Paintings are appreciated best when there are few people around to spoil the view
Well-behaved Beethoven
Beethoven: Triple concerto and British folksongs (Decca)
Polish strings
Grazyna Bacewicz: Symphonies 3 &4; Concerto for string orchestra (both on Chandos)
Big beasts versus the Bible
Darwin sidelined the Creator by documenting the slow mechanisms of evolution
Where the Tories must go from here
The Conservative Party must set aside backbiting in favour of building a radical political project that can appeal to young and old alike
Free speech is a waste of breath
Free speech is not our cause, and it gets us nowhere anyway
Culture war, what is it good for?
Women will continue to battle for our rights
What is culture anyway?
Protecting and renewing culture demands a fuller understanding of its nature and its purposes
Women have bad odds with Dodds
This appointment is an insult from Keir Starmer
Against literary celebriphilia
We need interesting authors, not “big names”
Bureaucrazy
Why grades can go up even as standards go down
Sorry is the hardest word
In the wake of the Cass Report, the hordes are now looking for a face-saving way to recant
Dazzled to death in Venice
At last, a truly world-class experience
Seller beware
Sotheby’s new fee structure favours the auctioneer
