Classical Music
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
Charli’s carefree bratitude
This is music for people who are tired of being careful
Getting the creeps
How should we cope with the unsettling in everyday life?
The grim quasi-religious doctrine of “unconscious bias training”
Baroness Royall’s commitment to the idea should concern Oxford students, academics and administrators
The restless life of a very bourgeois rebel
Gauguin was not an artist who lent himself to categorisation
Booze or muse?
Composers have been no slouches when it comes to the sauce
Don’t idolise Roger Scruton
Our reverence for the late thinker must not limit our imaginations
Stories worth telling
Untold Stories (Hyperion)
Violence is a feature of porn, not a bug
Aggression towards women permeates the most popular pornography
Gambling gifts
New reports on Labour and political donations miss the point
Labour’s insecurity counsel
A strategy of concession and apology will not build Britain’s soft power
The art of violence
High jinks in the Groucho Club are small beer when compared to the misdeeds of their artist ancestors
