Music
In search of the real Mahler
How Mahler’s music is about living in the moment
Top of the pops?
What makes great rock and roll
Prokofiev, Tcherepnin: The Bark of Yearning (Avi-music)
This is prime Prokofiev
Irritatingly glib take on a golden year
Stanfield adds little to the history of rock that hasn’t been said better elsewhere
John Adams: Slonimsky’s Earbox (Alpha)
Among his best work
John Cage: Four Walls (Fuga Libera)
More than a little bit mad
Wartime hallelujah
Creativity amid conflict
Wagner rides again
A return to enchanted tradition in Siegfried at Longborough Festival Opera
The original, best and shortest English opera
John Blow, Venus and Adonis; Henry Purcell, Dido and Aeneas (HGO)
Let’s diversify the curriculum
If we really want diversity, we need to get more traditional
Art of the deal
A simple sale, with money changing hands, was out of the question
A life of indulgence
Jacob Rees-Mogg has a major persona and a minor career
Make high culture popular again
We need to face the music and embrace the highbrow
An open letter against assisted dying
118 academics oppose the Leadbeater Bill
A bleak midwinter
For fans watching QPR struggle for the past two decades, it feels like the club is cursed
How will Christian MPs shape the assisted suicide debate?
The Tory Christian is in decline, but the Labour Christian could make the difference
Tablets of stone
Tech firms increasingly set the rules when it comes to education
Release the hounds
The best university sport? Beagling
When the farmers took on Starmer
It was an inspiring day in London as farmers resisted Labour’s class warfare
Writing lives
The life story of the biography, from Victorian glorification to Bloomsbury boldness to contemporary obliquity
