Classical Music
Not so easy listening
Janacek, Brahms, Bartok: Violin sonatas (Alpha-Classics/Outhere)
Our ultimate moment
Outstanding art for troubled times
Make Mozart great again
Music that lifts the heart
Playing that pulls no punches
Kholodenko is in the elite of classical pianists
Defiantly playful
A composer worth discovering and rediscovering
Sibelius: Symphonies 3&5 (Alpha-Classics)
There’s a new burst of steam from the sauna
In search of the real Mahler
How Mahler’s music is about living in the moment
Major and minor talent
Rott’s influence, Mahler’s genius
The bore of the world
Give this one a miss
Schumann/Mahler: Symphonies 1&2 (Naxos)
Schumann cannot be ignored
It’s time to transition babies
Even in the womb, many foetuses can sense their own trans identity
Restoring sanity takes time
So many people have built their professional lives around gender insanity
Men deserve single-sex spaces too
The campaign against the Garrick Club is tiresome and opportunistic
J.K. Rowling and the very Freudian fandom
Many Harry Potter fans feel a strange compulsion to hate the thing they love
Jonathan Glazer’s speech was an affirmation of Jewishness
Critics who accuse him of denying his identity have things backwards
Giants and pygmies
Some stop-gap leaders of the opposition were never intended to be potential prime ministers
Chasing votes on foreign soil
Viktor Orbán has created a pipeline of support for his Fidesz political project by granting full citizenship to thousands of ethnic Hungarians in Romania
Their transition too (w/ Emma B)
Children are not secondary characters in their parents’ story
The Church of England has failed on gender
To pursue kindness at the expense of truth is self-defeating
A dentist’s appointment for Liam
Rishi discovers he is more appealing to the voters when he’s not there
Could Britain have a coherent written constitution?
It seems probable that it would have a Christianity-shaped hole at its core
