Classical Music
A path open to us all
Daniel Johnson reviews Wagner’s Parsifal, by Roger Scruton
Welcome to the unfrozen North
How Canada reinvented its musical prowess
Tapping into history
As soon as you enter Idagio.com you can kiss your working day goodbye
Scruton’s Danubian overtures
Sir Roger Scruton: A classical composer and inspiration to Hungarian students
High notes go wrong
Flying is a macho thing for musicians. It shows they are in demand and living the good life
Schlock of the new
Those in charge are in thrall to vain provocateur directors
High Drama on the Podium
Norman Lebrecht on the late, great Mariss Jansons who died on December 1st
Traditional rebels
Why music students are resisting the new teaching regime
Play it both ways, Dmitry
This new biography has set my feet pounding, for once in admiration rather than indignation
Where are the calls for blasphemy laws coming from?
We should consider the voters as well as the politicians
The childishness of republicanism
Lidia Thorpe’s outburst is no reflection of the Australian attitudes towards the King
Tense present
Our demand for immediacy makes it difficult to appreciate the past, the present or the future
Why can’t there be more vampires?
Bloodsucking, in various more or less metaphorical guises, is after all opera’s happiest place
Soporific Starmer
The Prime Minister appears to be making a virtue of his own dullness
Impressive yet unmoving
Franz Schmidt: 4 symphonies (Naxos)
An open letter on academic free speech
Calls for more intellectual openness are not a defence of Islamists and Holocaust deniers. A response to Mark Ferguson MP
Murders for November
Another mélange of murders, from Japan to Scotland
Draining the swamp
Residents are hopeful that the mayor’s grip on Venice might at last be easing
Fabian fry-up
After last night’s disco, a very hungover conference is ready for a hearty plate of social democracy
Is Cheltenham beyond parody?
A books bash these days has to offer Geri and Geoff Hurst and that bloke out of Radiohead
