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
Save nursing from the universities
There is no need for nursing to be a graduate only occupation
You reap what you sow
Poor Daniel Zeichner was left to face the outrage that the Budget had caused
The right to learn at home
Home education is a powerful alternative to the box-ticking of state schooling
The Bezos behemoth
Behind the logistics miracle are some troubling stories
Into the setting sun…
Next summer, head west to Pembrokeshire
Schrödinger’s Culture War
Is it a myth or a tremendous success?
Calm down, dears!
Donald Trump offers no threat to Britain’s core ideological commitments and is unlikely to radically change U.S. foreign policy
The kindest of ghosts
A new history of childhood reading is a treasure
Tough on the causes of non-crime
A warm welcome back to non-crime hate incidents
The afterlife of Father Jerzy Popiełuszko
Reflections on forty years since his death shook communist Poland
There is more to ethics than “#BeKind”
It is not cruel to fear the consequences of legalising assisted dying
