Paul Hindemith
Hindemith: Wind sonatas (Warner)
Paul Hindemith’s music is extremely well-made, intelligent, civilised, and moderately witty — so why has it all but vanished?
Britten, Hindemith, RVW, Martinu (Claves)
The 1934 suite by Ralph Vaughan Williams demands a sympathy for the rolling contours of the English countryside
Redrawing boundaries
The constituency boundary review is in, and it makes for very long reading
The new network for gender-critical academics
Welcome news for radical feminists and supporters of free speech
Letter from Washington: A Biden baby boom?
Washington’s new family-friendly consensus doesn’t run as deep as it appears
We need to talk about Greenpeace
Malthusian extremists oppose GM crops that could save millions
The death of western cosmopolitanism
A global pandemic has shown how beneficial it is to have a strong nation state
Activism works
If this stuttery, scatterbrained autist can become an activist, there really is no excuse for anybody else
David Hockney: An oyster without grit
An oyster without grit
Resch/Beethoven: String quartets (Genuin)
The Frankfurt-based Aris Quartet play Beethoven with sweeping flair and something close to insouciance
America first
No one can sensibly doubt that American primacy is much more agreeable to us than Chinese hegemony
Women’s rights campaigner charged
You won’t believe why they’ve charged Marion Miller