Yannick Nézet-Séguin
Renée Fleming: Voice of Nature, The Anthropocene (Decca)
Beauty released by the singer’s larynx is met by plodding fingers on a monochrome keyboard
No direction from directors
Music directors who fail to provide any direction in times of crisis
Lily Phillips is a Rorschach test
Experience and behaviour are not solely reducible to consent
Developing nations will be forced to choose
Sitting on the fence between China and the USA is unsustainable
The death of conservatism?
Individually and collectively, we must choose life
Draining the swamp
Residents are hopeful that the mayor’s grip on Venice might at last be easing
The futility of safeguards for assisted suicide
Lessons from Belgium and the Netherlands
Gunther Fehlinger-Jahn, European
Where does shitposting end and statesmanship begin?
Britain is at breaking point
The UK is experiencing existential challenges, but neither elitists nor populists offer a solution
Too many silences in this book about music
The hazy treatment of what “music” even entails falls flat
Killing time
Parliament is making the world a better place, one death at a time
The Warburg refurbished
The institute used to feel intellectually introverted
Mental illness is more complex than we think
There are no easy answers when it comes to mental health
