Category Culture

Beginning with the historic version that the 15-year-old Yehudi Menuhin made with the composer himself conducting in 1931, the truly outstanding recordings of Elgar’s Violin Concerto can still be counted on the fingers of one hand. It’s a measure of…

Death at the Sign of the Rook by Kate Atkinson (Doubleday, £22)The sixth Jackson Brodie book finds the PI firmly in Agatha Christie – even Cluedo – territory, as Brodie is tasked by a pair of siblings with investigating the…