Piano
A bore and a balm
Inferno: Behzod Abdurimov (Alpha Classics)
Alkan the Awesome
Alkan: Complete organ works, vol. 1 (Signum Classics)
Go get this record!
Arirang (Orchid)
No relationship with the keyboard
Pierre Boulez/Alfred Schnittke: Piano works (Naxos/BIS)
A fruitcake rather than an egghead
Somehow Alfred Brendel managed to appear both deadly serious and not serious at all
A thoughtful take on Schubert
Schubert: Piano sonata D959, Moments Musicaux (Hyperion)
Prodigiously original
Alkan: Early works (Piano Classics)
Have I seen the future of music?
On a performance in three dimensions for all five senses
Beethoven’s piano maker
Album of the Week: Nannette Streicher’s Fortepiano (Gramola)
Make Mozart great again
Music that lifts the heart
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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
The shape of a different Britain
Early modernist homes in Frinton-on-Sea capture a moment of confidence in a rapidly changing world
The torment and the tourists
Holiday-makers must stop enabling the abuse of horses in Egypt
Kurdish delight
Witnessing ancient traditions that have endured through fraught and tumultuous histories
What is anger for?
If young women are going to be radical, they need to make it worth it
Supernatural delight
Religion cannot be reduced to dry abstractions
Orbánism is not dead
The veteran Hungarian prime minister is going but his agenda lives on
Don’t bet against the SNP
The complete ineptitude of their rivals has kept them at the top of Scottish politics
Among the true believers
Belgium’s cycling culture is unique, and increasingly under threat
A love-hate affair
Finger-lingering over hideous fluffy lilac footwear
Save our green and pleasant land
It’s time to stop ruining Britain’s countryside with drab, identikit houses and instead build real places with focus, heart and purpose
The trans war on reality
Trans activists loudly trumpet a false mythology
of victimhood. In fact, trans people are more
likely to kill than be killed,