Vermeer and the Art of Solitude
Some works are not meant to be blockbusters
Charles and Mary Lamb’s Tales from Shakespeare
Sophisticated and never condescending
When the Angry Lion Roared
Pierre Boulez and the piece that marked his breakthrough as a composer
Great Escape
On Normandy’s coast a century ago, Claude Debussy fled the war and composed his final piano masterpiece
Road Show
The woodblock prints of Utagawa Hiroshige
Boy Wonder
Remembering Lorin Maazel
Incident at Mittersill
A new opera explores the mysterious death of the composer Anton Webern
The World All Before Them
Setting off on footpaths both well-trod and forgotten
A Day in the Life
Reading Joyce’s Ulysses as a guide to urban living
Vibrato Wars
Elgar, served neat and unshaken, stirs up the Brits
