From the Lebrecht Album of the Week:

… His ninth symphony, receiving its world premiere on this release, is a kind of summation. Starting with a self-composed carol and extending to a Bach chorale, it represents the best of British creativity in its craftsmanship, its moderation and its lucid rationale. The language, while tonal, is two generations beyond Vaughan Williams and the narrative reflects something of a thinking man’s struggle to maintain a reasoned equilibrium in a threatened universe….

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And here.

Go on. You know you want to.

No prizes for guessing the one with flappy fingers.

In a new essay on antisemitism and anti-Zionism, the former chief rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks argues that traditional anti-semitism – which was driven by the Church – morphed into a populist phenomenon in the mid-19th century and found roots in cultural activities.

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Seems it’s George Sokol, of the Hampstead Sokol Piano Academy.

The store is John Lewis, Oxford Street.