violin
Musical no man’s lands
Two violin concertos fail to inspire
Essential all-embracing warmth
Gidon Kremer: Songs of Fate (ECM)
An epochal violinist
Eugene Ysaye: Solo violin sonatas (Deutsche Grammophon)
Nova’s diary: Everything’s different now
Rishi is helping our neighbour, Big Jeremy, with his sums
How bad is the news on booze?
And how bad are the ideas for curbing consumption?
Equal opportunities fleecing
This blinkered trade’s endless thwarting of talented homosexuals has gone on too long
Michael Gove’s convenient conversion won’t be enough
Britain’s economic dysfunction runs very deep indeed
May letters
We are in grave danger of losing our musical marbles
Poor old Carmen
This update of a classic from the Royal Opera House is a reminder of why messing with great pieces is so risky
Time for realpolitik in Israel
Britain’s foreign policy in the Middle East should put British interests first
Giving noticing a bad name
Observing factual differences is not the same as leaping to conclusions
Sugar, sex and sacrifice
It would be foolish to casually abandon Christian ethics of restraint
It’s the only one for me, nicotine
Once again, public health fanaticism is being prioritised over simple pleasures
Let the blood-letting begin
The Conservative Party must change radically if it is ever to gain power again
