Music
The elusive Seiji Ozawa was Japan’s greatest peacemaker
Farewell not just to a conductor but to a generous man
The light and the insubstantial
Poulenc and others: Chamber music (Calliope/DG)
Saltburn and the significance of sound
Why has Sophie Ellis-Bextor’s “Murder on the Dancefloor” caught the world’s attention again?
Stravinsky’s aching quality
Stravinsky, Bartok, Martinu: Works for violin and orchestra (BIS)
Superficial pleasures
A te, Puccini (Signum)
The music of the Bard
A great tradition of Shakespearean songs have been all but forgotten
Don’t stop the music
Closures at Oxford Brookes are a sad reflection on the state of the academic music sector
In search of Graceland
Paul Simon’s journey to a gentle spirituality
Ban this vile “Hate” Parade
Puberty is a form of far-right terrorism
Why do we persist with Opera?
Dependent on state subsidies, artistically ossified and only a few go to see it
Minimum pricing, maximum annoyance
No one wins when the minimum price for alcohol rises
The case for Jenrick
He can reform the party and take on Labour
The EU is leaving Britain behind on immigration
The continent is waking up to the need for solutions, and Britain must wake up as well
Tory Utopias
1940s Conservatism was seething with creativity and optimism
Boris the Innocent
The Johnsonian lexicon has yet to incorporate the word “responsibility”
The crisis at Edinburgh Rape Crisis Centre
Serious as it is, it is no anomaly
Donald Trump doesn’t know what a woman is, either
Believing that the sexes are different does not mean appreciating their humanity in full
Look on our works, ye voters, and despair
Nothing beside remains except the colossal wreck of the Tory Party
An excess of Fauré
Gabriel Fauré: Violin concerto (Naxos), Complete piano works (Calliope)
Blogosphere bubble
Reviving a simple English classic: bubble and squeak
Allyship on easy mode
The inclusive message of Will & Harper obscures the harder questions of the “gender wars”
