Sergei Babayan
Rachmaninov: Preludes, Etudes (DG)
Babayan’s Rachmninov is remarkable is its absence of obvious virtuosity
The US city on the banks of the Thames
Critics don’t care for Canary Wharf, considering it a monument of 1980s corporatism
What’s wrong with the Human Rights Act?
It makes judges the arbiter of moral and political as well as legal decisions
Hatred without end
A year on from October 7th, mutual dehumanisation and refusal of moral responsibility characterises our “debate” over the Gaza war
More than just noise
Berg, Schoenberg, Webern: Piano works (Warner)
Franco-Irish vigour
Augusta Holmès: Symphonic poems (CPO)
Don’t trust the Runnymede Trust
The law is too indulgent of political charities
Britain should get serious about organised crime
We underestimate how much crime is the work of small, nasty groups of people
Cleaning up the town
As cities grew, so did the need for reform and sanitation
Twitter has always been toxic
Bluesky is a reminder of an earlier form of smug spitefulness
The effects of Brexit are still being misreported
A new paper has received a lot of attention — all of it undeserved
Trump’s first gambit fails
The Republican candidate was not as effective on the debate stage as he anticipated
