Timothy Ridout
Britten, Hindemith, RVW, Martinu (Claves)
The 1934 suite by Ralph Vaughan Williams demands a sympathy for the rolling contours of the English countryside
Carole Cadwalladr’s conspiracy theory
The feverish paranoia obscures valid questions
Is “progressive realism” either?
Weighing up the rights and wrongs of the Lammy Doctrine
Dancing with Beethoven
Beethoven: String Quartets, vol.2 (Chandos)
Is the culture war over?
Populist political victories do nothing to change the reality of progressive institutional dominance
Spotify Wrapped is good for the soul
On the joys of exploring a year in music
The blame, again, falls on Sinn Fein
The party responded appallingly to its press officer being accused of child sex offences
Art of the deal
A simple sale, with money changing hands, was out of the question
A full-blooded blow-out
Kurt Weill: Symphonies, Seven Deadly Sins (DG)
Post-truth medicine
Gender clinics offer a charade that relies on the symbols of evidence-based medicine
Invasion literature
It couldn’t happen here. Right?
The future that never came
Post-war London was saved from a modernist masterplan
