Easter Holidays
Extreme veneration in Seville
The ongoing echoes of the reformation
Easter angst
Holiday horror looms on the horizon
A masterpiece in miniature
Taneyev, Schumann: Piano quintets (Signum)
Poor old Carmen
This update of a classic from the Royal Opera House is a reminder of why messing with great pieces is so risky
A matter of National concern
This year’s race will come close to destroying its magic
The new Ottomans
The fall and rise of Istanbul under President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan
This is not where I live at all
Cynthia Erivo’s slighting of Sunderland was indicative of British arts establishment beholden to a homogenous, Americanised vision of culture
Polish strings
Grazyna Bacewicz: Symphonies 3 &4; Concerto for string orchestra (both on Chandos)
Making art of the Holocaust
As dramatic opera, The Passenger inhabits a grey zone of guard–prisoner relations
Murders for March
Sharp lines, twisting plots and colourful characters
Don’t ban the billboards
Campaigns against advertising are pure public health fanaticism
Netherworld
The Dutch golden age could be anything but for the painters
Google has a history problem
As much as we might wish that history had been different, virtue cannot grow from the soil of falsehood
