Classical Music
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)
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?
Now’s your time, House of Lords
The upper house must prove its worth by opposing the shabby Chagos Islands deal
Bursting the myth of the “people’s war”
The Home Guard was not a nation-in-arms of the Jacobin kind
St. Vincent
The acclaim is excessive but the talent undeniable
Biden’s legacy of escalation
His last decisions could determine the state of global politics
Some picture-perfect restorations
What we were seeing looked as good as it would have at its premiere
The DUP aren’t tough negotiators
The party that claimed to stand up for unionists capitulated at every turn
Suella all along
You can achieve anything if you don’t take the credit
The Tory beauty contest
The good, the bad, the ugly and the downright embarrassing
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
The right to learn at home
Home education is a powerful alternative to the box-ticking of state schooling
Getting the creeps
How should we cope with the unsettling in everyday life?
