Music
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?
God save The Kinks
How did four ornery lads rearing up from the post-war English underclass become national treasures?
Musical no man’s lands
Two violin concertos fail to inspire
Against the relegation of Record Review
Why is Radio 3 mistreating one of its greatest assets?
Save St John’s Voices
The glorious tradition of British choral singing should be defended
Playfulness and tedium
Stravinsky, Petrushka; Debussy, Jeux and Prelude (Decca)
A talented pianist and a battered piano
Bezhod Abduraimov: Shadows of my ancestors (Alpha-Classics)
The Sturgeon delusion
How the former SNP leader inspired hope and then squandered it
The effects of Brexit are still being misreported
A new paper has received a lot of attention — all of it undeserved
The predictability of subverting expectations
What to expect when you’re expecting your expectations to be subverted
The first female President will be Republican
American conservatives are far less averse to assertive women than the political left
Foul play
David Peace’s new novel is about much more than football
Conservatism needs environmentalism
What could be more conservative than conserving our natural heritage?
Should you really admit to regretting having kids?
Lamenting parenthood creates a psychological trap
The costs of assisted suicide
The trade-offs are real and extremely serious
The monumental cradles of democracy
Squeezed into a single large volume, readers can now find a remarkable account of the Greek city
The strange death of the Office for Place
The demise of the Office for Place is a missed opportunity for housing
Love, death and drink
Does inspiration really come out of a bottle?
