Dmitri Shostakovich
Poor conduct
Shostakovich: Symphonies 4-6 (Decca)
Over-simplified and underpowered
Shostakovich symphonies 2, 3, 12, 13 (DG)
Play it both ways, Dmitry
This new biography has set my feet pounding, for once in admiration rather than indignation
Make high culture popular again
We need to face the music and embrace the highbrow
We are missing the important point on procurement
Systemic dysfunction is far more important than individual failures
The student politics of Clive Lewis
All he sees are good guys and bad guys
Identity politics has undermined policing
Sir Mark Rowley should address the partiality of the police
Dancing with Beethoven
Beethoven: String Quartets, vol.2 (Chandos)
Carole Cadwalladr’s conspiracy theory
The feverish paranoia obscures valid questions
The Conservatives must reject Human Quantitative Easing
It has been a disaster for the party and for the nation
A beguiling star who loved melodrama
Taylor’s hunger for money, flashy gizmos and flashier gewgaws found its echo in Burton’s need to forsake the classics
Free speech defenders should practice what they preach
There should be no illiberal exception for anti-Zionist academics
Up-and-down towns
The rise and fall of English towns in the 1960s and 80s
4B and the futility of heteropessimism
Romance is painful but it is also possible
