Music
Landfill indie remembered
A Golden Age? It was barely a Plastic Age
Hi-energy nutrients
Schoenfield, Vivier, Bartok &c (Accentus Music)
Poor conduct
Shostakovich: Symphonies 4-6 (Decca)
More than just noise
Berg, Schoenberg, Webern: Piano works (Warner)
Their generation
How young rockers became venerable sages
Enthralling eclecticism
Roberto Gerhard: Don Quixote, &c. (Chandos)
Butchering La bohème
Opera is “relatable” already
Swiftism’s role in saving the V&A Museum
The unconventional Englishness of the Taylor Swift phenomenon
Piano in wartime
War poems (Somm)
Conservatives listen to music too
Gatekeeping the “real” meaning of songs is foolish and futile
Most Read
The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Can Russell T Davies write “terfs”?
In Tip Toe, Russell T Davies is more nuanced than one might expect — much to the dismay of gender ideologues
When imitation is more then just flattery
An informative and entertaining history of plagiarism in its many forms
The shadow of the thorn tree
Christian culture must combine tradition and modernity
Why nobody likes a smarty pants
Is it reasonable to conflate genuine intellectual endeavour with undue concern for supposed accuracy?
Losing control of the narrative
The British establishment no longer sets the terms of public debate over migration
Frivolous and doomed
Classicism still has its place at the National Theatre
Working with Woods
There have been too few honest explorations into the intrinsic link between woods and humans
Angst, Nazis and forgotten treasure
Transcription / You Are the Führer’s Unrequited Love / For the Love of Willie
A new town versus an old estate
Development in the heart of rural Oxfordshire will change the ecology of the surrounding area
Beyond Carmen
Georges Bizet: The piano works (Hyperion)
The lonely death of Henry Nowak
We must draw lessons from a horrendous and disgraceful case
Wunderbar wines
The love affair between British and German wine is an ancient one