Zoltan Kodaly
Ligeti and Kodaly: Lux Aeterna (OUR Recordings)
The otherworldly and the down-to-earth
The attractions of extremes
Are we going to become ever more passive consumers of other people’s thoughts and memories?
A beguiling star who loved melodrama
Taylor’s hunger for money, flashy gizmos and flashier gewgaws found its echo in Burton’s need to forsake the classics
The downfall of the podcast-industrial complex
How did some of our finest podcasters get the election so wrong?
An excess of Fauré
Gabriel Fauré: Violin concerto (Naxos), Complete piano works (Calliope)
It’s a M.A.D. world in Kubrick’s satire
A drama based around the shaky paradox of deterrence no longer feels like a dusty throwback
When the music stopped
A reflection on the inexorable decline of arts education and the rise of knee-jerk politics and managerialism
The US is getting what it wants in the Middle East
Israeli escalations against Hezbollah are not defiance but an extension of U.S. strategy
Not a relaunch
Is that a PLAN FOR CHANGE in your pocket or are you just pleased to see me?
Tough on the causes of non-crime
A warm welcome back to non-crime hate incidents
Democracy is being undermined in Northern Ireland
Brussels and London are both being reckless about Stormont
“Scottish visas” would double down on two failed ideas
The plan offers the worst of devolution and mass migration in one policy
