Classical Music
Honky-tonking around
Yuja Wang: The American Album (DG)
Excellence for everyone
What does the BBC have against classical music?
The death of a music shop
We shouldn’t accept the decline of the high street
A genius who could say “no”
The things Beethoven never did
Englishness with an aftertaste
The pleasures of cowpats
Passion and percussion
Two tastes of Chinese culture in London
An enemy of the best
Nothing routine, showy or ill-considered
A hundred shades of autumn leaves
He grips the attention with every phrase
A guaranteed crowd pleaser
Let the brass section blow cobwebbed memories to kingdom come
Rage captured to perfection
Chamber symphonies were a neglected genre revived during the Covid shutdowns
Scary cute
CUTE, a new exhibition at Somerset House is a deliciously unsettling stroll down the uncanny valley
The slick glide through the institutions
When values are outsourced to third-party organisations, everybody suffers
Fire and ice
Klopp is the air-punching booming-laugh extrovert; Guardiola the turtleneck-wearing, obsessively professorial introvert
Frock right off
Dresses, dogs and dinner
Britain’s first postmodern election
What Galloway’s victory really tells us about Britain
The end of Pevsner
The monumental work of maintaining a live record of the architecture of the UK and Ireland is in danger of being abandoned
When classicists attack classics
Sanskrit isn’t the only ancient language to be affected by academic imperialism
NATO’s unhappy birthday
The world is growing more dangerous and its members need the will to confront new challenges
Maligning the missionaries
Should the Church of England regret the promotion of Christianity?
Exhibiting military history
Four new exhibitions offer vivid insights into different experiences of war
No questions about the woman question, please
Activists are even being excluded from conversations about activism
