Music
Music fit for a king
The cliché of Britain as “the land without music” was disproved
No more than curiosities
Bruno Walter: String quartet, piano quintet (CPO)
Revel in Runyon
A classic gem with extra polish
Words and music
The bookish thrill of recognising the literary references of the pop artists you love
The quietest guest of all
The clavichord makes up for a lack of grandeur with extraordinary expressiveness
Snaps, crackles and Pop Art
Things you didn’t know you were interested in — until someone wrote a good book about them
We can’t Retvrn to tradition
Sorry, trads and tradwives, modvrnity is here to stay
Once more with Gustavo
“Orchestra makes right call” shock!
Betjeman the beat poet
Recalling a thrilling collaboration between the poet and a group of oddball musicians
Honky-tonking around
Yuja Wang: The American Album (DG)
The case for more royals
This is no time for a slimmed-down monarchy
When youth becomes period drama
The stakes feel very high when our younger years become the stuff of popular entertainment
Representation gets raunchy
We have to stop the patronising pandering to communities in the name of “representation”
Nova’s diary: Everything’s different now
Rishi is helping our neighbour, Big Jeremy, with his sums
The cost of dissent
Brave women have sacrificed a lot to stand up for their gender critical beliefs
A new low in anti-vape scaremongering
There is no great risk of oral cancer among vapers
A talented pianist and a battered piano
Bezhod Abduraimov: Shadows of my ancestors (Alpha-Classics)
The Scottish Government are being bad eggs
State institutions should not be encouraging a potentially painful and dangerous procedure
Remembering an Agatha Christ-mas
What maintains our fascination with the worlds of Agatha Christie?
The callousness of the virtue signallers
The response to a young singer’s death exposed the cruelty of the self-consciously virtuous
Against rights radicalism
A noble cause has mutated into an obstructive and anti-democratic force
