Culture
British piano concertos (Lyrita); British music for strings #3 (CPO)
A prawn cocktail of exceptionally competent music to enjoy on Easter Sunday
Studio: The “Fallas” of Valencia
Fierce rivalries in a shared sport
Rachmaninov: Piano Sonata No 1 / Moments Musicaux
A new release of Rachmaninov’s first piano sonata deserves more than five stars
Maxxed out
Battling imposter syndrome in the brave new world
Mieczyslaw Weinberg: Cello Works and Piano Sonatas
If you want an entry point to Weinberg, this is it
Ligeti and Kodaly: Lux Aeterna (OUR Recordings)
The otherworldly and the down-to-earth
TB or not TB: the literature of consumption
No infectious disease has left its scars on the body of literature like tuberculosis
Harrison Birtwistle: Chamber works (BIS)
The British composer — still writing at 87 years of age — is an acquired taste
How to be a literary editor
Done well, book reviews have never been more important
The joys of getting down with the grandkids
Campaigners for inter-generational justice miss the mark
Take a bow
This season’s must-have neckwear is a sartorial two-fingered salute to life
We have to rebalance civil society
To influence power, we must organise
A life of indulgence
Jacob Rees-Mogg has a major persona and a minor career
Plane English
On pyjamas and private jets
What do Labour think a conversion therapy is?
There has to be a middle ground between complete denial and complete affirmation
Join the escalation?
That world war may not erupt imminently is no excuse for being complacent
Carole Cadwalladr’s conspiracy theory
The feverish paranoia obscures valid questions
History unmakers
Our national treasures are morbid symptoms of a country in decline
The iconoclast’s last defence
Artistic excuses for Just Stop Oil are confused and opportunistic
Love, death and drink
Does inspiration really come out of a bottle?
On the awfulness of liberals
The Lords must put the Leadbeater bill to sleep
