Giving Mozart a makeover
Mozart: The Salzburg Project (Warner)
Messing with the master’s work
Beethoven: Emperor Concerto; Brett Dean: A Winter’s Journey (Orchid)
Anger and intuition
Mieczyslaw Weinberg: String quartets 6, 13, 15 (Chandos)
£355 for Glasto but opera’s elitist?
Reverse snobbery is the order of the day
Schoenberg’s morning and night
Arnold Schoenberg: Expressionist Music (Orchid)
Too measured for its own good
Lukas Foss: 1st symphony &c (Naxos)
Peers but not equals
Ferdinand Ries: Symphonies 1&2 (Ondine); Franz Clement: Solo violin works (Naxos)
Sensitivity of a high order
Sibelius and Prokofiev: Violin concertos (Decca)
Finnish on a high note
Now, how the Helsinki has this happened?
Surprise and tension
Czech Songs: Magdalena Kozena (Pentatone)
The Old Vic under siege
The King’s favourite Shakespearean need hardly trouble himself with such dreary details
The porn Olympics
Porn puts young men and women in a degrading race that most of them are doomed to lose — so why are athletes lending it credibility?
Power and authority
The development of British towns in the 17th and 18th centuries
Poor conduct
Shostakovich: Symphonies 4-6 (Decca)
How the Tories can win again
The new leader of the Conservatives must reach an important, ignored sector
Was the Budget stupid or malicious?
It is going to fuel youth unemployment
Leo Varadkar is still stirring division
The former Taoiseach should have more humility
Confessions of a Melbourne Bus-Fare Evader
I am become bus, destroyer of bourgeois class consciousness
Foul play
David Peace’s new novel is about much more than football
(DTB) Don’t Trust Boris
The former prime minister is up to his old tricks
Conservatism needs environmentalism
What could be more conservative than conserving our natural heritage?
