Music
Riffs or rigour?
Arts practice has gained the upper hand over scholarship
Giving Mozart a makeover
Mozart: The Salzburg Project (Warner)
Schoenberg’s morning and night
Arnold Schoenberg: Expressionist Music (Orchid)
Too measured for its own good
Lukas Foss: 1st symphony &c (Naxos)
What future for Winchester Cathedral Choir?
The choral tradition in the cathedral must be enlivened rather than diluted
Surprise and tension
Czech Songs: Magdalena Kozena (Pentatone)
Of course we need opera
Click-hungry editors should stop enabling philistinism
Elgar’s excellence
Elgar: Symphonies (Halle/Oehms)
In praise of the viola
Cantabile: Anthems for viola (Delphian)
Finding the middle ground
Where do the acts too big for pubs but too small for arenas play?
England is not yet lost
Where else would you rather be from?
How long can Ireland’s gender equality hold?
A gender divide in voting is not as clear as in other countries — but that could change
Sean Scully in France
He’s been showered with honours and awards — yet plenty of people can’t stand his work
The danger of naive humanitarianism
The rejection of force is complacent and unsustainable
The shell shock of the arts
How will the art world respond to its narrative shock?
Let’s leave the Commonwealth
There is no point in being a member just to be browbeaten about our past
The city and its uncertain plot
Despite fascinating thematic material to work with, Murakami still makes it ploddingly dull
Why was a foreign rapist in Britain?
The sad background to a horrific case
Butterfield’s glorious vindication
Received opinion was wrong about William Butterfield’s powerful architecture
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We found the prawns you so thoughtfully left behind the radiator, but there’s still something here, isn’t there?
The personal has become far too political
Something has gone very wrong when we are acutely aware of politics
