Music Reviews
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?
Erwin Schulhoff: Violin sonatas (Orfeo/FHR)
Virtuosity amidst violence
Joyous adventures in the absurd
A new performance of a Janacek opera takes one to the moon and back
Wagner rides again
A return to enchanted tradition in Siegfried at Longborough Festival Opera
The eye of the storm
Rachel Podger and Brecon Baroque, Vivaldi, The Four Seasons
The original, best and shortest English opera
John Blow, Venus and Adonis; Henry Purcell, Dido and Aeneas (HGO)
Some very healthy early music canaries
Helen Charlston & Toby Carr; Siglo de Oro (LFBM, St John’s, Smith Sq)
Henryk Mikolai Gorecki: Piano pieces (Accord)
A furious, unfiltered revelation of the experimental heart of a familiar composer
The Sea! The Sea!
Southbank Sinfonia Baroque at St John’s Smith Square
Must-Miss TV
Your regular Critic round-up of the hottest shows and films.
Art sales slump
Real world issues have quenched the post-COVID euphoria
International courts are largely irrelevant
An institutional spider’s web cannot stop a geopolitical elephant
Oasis: the good boys of rock and roll
For guitar bands since punk, there’s been a tension between credibility and success
The empty road to serfdom
“Vision Zero” is a tyrannical anti-driving dream
An open letter against assisted dying
118 academics oppose the Leadbeater Bill
The right to learn at home
Home education is a powerful alternative to the box-ticking of state schooling
An open letter on academic free speech
Calls for more intellectual openness are not a defence of Islamists and Holocaust deniers. A response to Mark Ferguson MP
Splashing the cash
On the complex relationship between art and money
Minimum pricing, maximum annoyance
No one wins when the minimum price for alcohol rises
End of the Long Peace?
Our technological and institutional sophistication will not eliminate conflict
