Mieczyslaw Weinberg
Mieczyslaw Weinberg: Cello Works and Piano Sonatas
If you want an entry point to Weinberg, this is it
Mieczyslaw Weinberg: Chamber symphonies 2&4
Weinberg is an absolute master of intimated emotion
Mieczyslaw Weinberg: Cello Concerto (CPO)
If Norman Lebrecht goes a month without hearing Weinberg he feels the loss
Why can’t there be more vampires?
Bloodsucking, in various more or less metaphorical guises, is after all opera’s happiest place
The opportunism of anti-police activists
Continued agitation around the death of Chris Kaba is inexcusable
Defending life and liberty
Abortion buffer zones hurt, rather than help women and babies
The public sector must reform or die
Too big to fail? It is too big to succeed
Borientalism
Madama Butterfly, Opera Ballet Flanders, Antwerp
A craven surrender
The handover of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius represents a mindless and unjust capitulation to a foreign power
Stick ‘em up
Has the culture war been won?
Invasion literature
It couldn’t happen here. Right?
The kindest of ghosts
A new history of childhood reading is a treasure
Oxford elects
Meet the denizens of Oxford’s disenchanted garden currently competing for the university’s top sinecure
The melting pot that boiled over
Beirut was once a playground for the rich and famous, but now seemingly destined for decline
