Classical Music
The love that dare not speak its name
Classical music has been tarnished with the dread word “elitism”
Playfulness and tedium
Stravinsky, Petrushka; Debussy, Jeux and Prelude (Decca)
What became of Tchaikovsky?
Tchaikovsky: 5th symphony etc (ICA Classics)
Essential all-embracing warmth
Gidon Kremer: Songs of Fate (ECM)
The elusive Seiji Ozawa was Japan’s greatest peacemaker
Farewell not just to a conductor but to a generous man
Soothing sounds in time of war
There are expectations going back to 1948 that musicians turn up to provide relief
Laid-back Bach
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach: Württemburg sonatas (ECM)
Rozsa’s regret
Miklos Rozsa: Orchestral works (Capriccio)
Stravinsky’s aching quality
Stravinsky, Bartok, Martinu: Works for violin and orchestra (BIS)
Superficial pleasures
A te, Puccini (Signum)
Land of slippery slopes
Does anybody really believe assisted suicide will stop at the terminally ill?
Robot recipes
Against cooking by algorithm
Leave our pubs alone
New public health proposals are missing the pint
So many voters got it wrong
The ignorant masses have betrayed democracy
You were warned
Badenoch’s election means bad news for the Tories
Risks and rewards
It is too easy to forget that jockeys run life-threatening risks
War, peace and city streets
How English towns survived the Blitz and entered the modern world
How Putin uses history as a weapon
Russia’s new Tsar has rewritten the national story
The great migration
What will Twitter do without its smuggest inhabitants?
Is Keir Starmer coming for Twitter?
A campaign group with close ties to Labour Party reportedly hopes to “kill Musk’s Twitter”
Marianna in the trenches
She wants to dive into the murky depths of social media, but her microphone can only scratch the surface
