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)
Draining the swamp
Residents are hopeful that the mayor’s grip on Venice might at last be easing
The same old song
A reboot of nineties favourite Le Caprice is more museum than restaurant
Bernard-Henri Lévy
France’s celebrity philosopher, war reporter and professional pessimist
Trump: Post-Modernist?
The former — and future? — president has an awkward but interesting relationship with the truth
Don’t bite the hand that feeds the birds
The government’s flawed biodiversity analysis endangers successful state-funded schemes
International Society for Libdem Consciousness
It’s a cult, but at least it’s one of the cheerful ones
Iranian women deserve more support
Self-styled internationalists are failing them
Labour has a conspiracy problem
Dawn Butler MP should reevaluate her eccentric ideas
Italy is right to extend its ban on surrogacy
It is good for women and it is good for children
Am I prepared to help my mum die?
Euthanasia poses impossible questions about life and death
Lucy Letby’s defenders have failed
They have not provided cause to doubt her conviction
