Music Reviews
Too light by half
Bernard Herrmann: Wuthering Heights (Chandos)
Pain and glory
Roger Waters’ last stand in Madrid
Just do the bloody show
Rusalka, Royal Opera House
The jackpot of opera
The Rhinegold, English National Opera, Coliseum
Passion and percussion
Two tastes of Chinese culture in London
Pity and terror
A powerful, moving adaptation of Puccini
Alban Berg: Violin concerto &c. (Chandos)
A stunning marriage of the tragic and the erotic
John Cage: Four Walls (Fuga Libera)
More than a little bit mad
Isabella Leonarda; A portrait (Brilliant Classics)
Passion and originality blossom behind the walls of the cloister
Rolling back into town
The world’s greatest band return to Liverpool — do they still have it?
The true lie of the land
Landowners are reviled as enemies of the environment by the Jacobins of the green movement but these Poundland Robespierres are simply blinded by prejudice
How Britain fell in love with cars
From Wind in the Willows to Wodehouse, cars captured the imagination
Against rights radicalism
A noble cause has mutated into an obstructive and anti-democratic force
The building that inspired Orwell
Was there an appetite at the time for monumental buildings, equivalent to those in Moscow?
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
Davie, Davie, give us some answers do
Why the BBC keeps obscuring the truth of sex and gender
In praise of centibillionaires
When people are free to make a lot of money from new businesses, everybody wins
Tragicomedy at the UN
The limp United Nations cannot be trusted to support the victims of tyranny
Who’s ready for the Equality Levy?
Birmingham’s bankruptcy is a portrait of Britain’s future
As flies to wanton boys
Gambling with human lives is just another day in the lives of the one per cent
Against the relegation of Record Review
Why is Radio 3 mistreating one of its greatest assets?
