Music
Not a dull phrase
Ethel Smyth: 2nd sonata &c (Delphian)
Make high culture popular again
We need to face the music and embrace the highbrow
Exilic yearnings
Miklos Rozsa: violin concerto (LSO Live)
Passing the baton to the offspring
Does maestro talent run in the genes?
Impressive yet unmoving
Franz Schmidt: 4 symphonies (Naxos)
Worthy instrument
York Bowen, Willam Walton: Viola concertos (SWR Music)
Landfill indie remembered
A Golden Age? It was barely a Plastic Age
Hi-energy nutrients
Schoenfield, Vivier, Bartok &c (Accentus Music)
Poor conduct
Shostakovich: Symphonies 4-6 (Decca)
More than just noise
Berg, Schoenberg, Webern: Piano works (Warner)
Boris the Innocent
The Johnsonian lexicon has yet to incorporate the word “responsibility”
(DTB) Don’t Trust Boris
The former prime minister is up to his old tricks
Who Should Be The Next Archbishop of Canterbury?
With the shock resignation of Justin Welby, who will the Great British Public select to lead the Church of England?
Why Tony Hinchcliffe’s jokes didn’t work
It is very hard to blend comedy and politics
A captivating northern star
If Lise Davidsen sneezes, the opera world shuts down
Reparate good times, come on!
The Critic’s Extremely Factual Guide to Slavery Reparations the UK Most Definitely Owes
From the monstrous to the grotesque
Hitler’s cult of charismatic leadership is indistinguishable from the ideology of National Socialism
Is this just fantasy?
Sir Brian May is wrong: farmers do care
The return of non-crime hate incidents
Labour are attacking free speech through the back door
The dangerous fallacy of “self-deterrence”
The concept makes little sense and could create serious risks
An orderly and civilised society
The biggest missing idea in British politics
