Damian Thompson

Damian Thompson is an associate editor of The Spectator

Sins of the fathers

23 March 2016 3:00 pm

A feature film about priests who abuse children is being released on 25 March. Which happens to be Good Friday.…

God’s messenger

12 March 2016 9:00 am

Damian Thompson talks to the great Bach conductor — and strict Calvinist — Masaaki Suzuki

God’s messenger

10 March 2016 3:00 pm

When the Japanese conductor Masaaki Suzuki leads his forces in a performance of a Bach cantata, does he worry that…

Organic chemistry

13 February 2016 9:00 am

My old Oxford college, Mansfield, isn’t a famous establishment, though its current principal, ‘Baroness Helena Kennedy’, as she incorrectly styles…

Organic chemistry

11 February 2016 3:00 pm

My old Oxford college, Mansfield, isn’t a famous establishment, though its current principal, ‘Baroness Helena Kennedy’, as she incorrectly styles…

Organic chemistry

11 February 2016 3:00 pm

My old Oxford college, Mansfield, isn’t a famous establishment, though its current principal, ‘Baroness Helena Kennedy’, as she incorrectly styles…

The bad book

6 February 2016 9:00 am

The decline of the Church of England has been one of the most astonishing trends in modern Britain. The pews…

Age concern

23 January 2016 9:00 am

Daniel Barenboim back at the Festival Hall! Cue The Grand March of the Musical Luvvies Across Hungerford Bridge, a bustling…

Age concern

21 January 2016 3:00 pm

Daniel Barenboim back at the Festival Hall! Cue The Grand March of the Musical Luvvies Across Hungerford Bridge, a bustling…

Age concern

21 January 2016 3:00 pm

Daniel Barenboim back at the Festival Hall! Cue The Grand March of the Musical Luvvies Across Hungerford Bridge, a bustling…

Bored by Brahms

21 November 2015 9:00 am

Brahms’s Clarinet Quintet begins, writes his biographer Jan Swafford, with ‘a gentle, dying-away roulade that raises a veil of autumnal…

Bored by Brahms

19 November 2015 3:00 pm

Brahms’s Clarinet Quintet begins, writes his biographer Jan Swafford, with ‘a gentle, dying-away roulade that raises a veil of autumnal…

Bored by Brahms

19 November 2015 3:00 pm

Brahms’s Clarinet Quintet begins, writes his biographer Jan Swafford, with ‘a gentle, dying-away roulade that raises a veil of autumnal…

Pope vs church

7 November 2015 9:00 am

Francis’s haphazard reforms risk sparking a Catholic civil war

Why I’m glad my piano teacher spent more time chatting than teaching

17 October 2015 8:00 am

At the entrance to Marylebone railway station is an old piano that anyone can play. Unfortunately, whoever had this sweet…

Why I’m glad my piano teacher spent more time chatting than teaching

15 October 2015 2:00 pm

At the entrance to Marylebone railway station is an old piano that anyone can play. Unfortunately, whoever had this sweet…

Why I’m glad my piano teacher spent more time chatting than teaching

15 October 2015 2:00 pm

At the entrance to Marylebone railway station is an old piano that anyone can play. Unfortunately, whoever had this sweet…

This year, Catholic conservatives are ready for Pope Francis

10 October 2015 9:00 am

Where will Francis's Synod on the Family take the Church?

Clara Schumann

Deadlier than the male

19 September 2015 8:00 am

Last week a 17-year-old girl forced the Edexcel exam board to change its A-level music syllabus to include the work…

Clara Schumann

Deadlier than the male

17 September 2015 1:00 pm

Last week a 17-year-old girl forced the Edexcel exam board to change its A-level music syllabus to include the work…

Clara Schumann

Deadlier than the male

17 September 2015 1:00 pm

Last week a 17-year-old girl forced the Edexcel exam board to change its A-level music syllabus to include the work…

The greatest pianist you’ve never heard of

22 August 2015 9:00 am

William Kapell was an American concert pianist with the looks of a male model and the fingers of a wizard.…

The greatest pianist you’ve never heard of

20 August 2015 1:00 pm

William Kapell was an American concert pianist with the looks of a male model and the fingers of a wizard.…

The greatest pianist you’ve never heard of

20 August 2015 1:00 pm

William Kapell was an American concert pianist with the looks of a male model and the fingers of a wizard.…

After coming forth in the Tchaikovsky competition, Lucas Debargue is the only competitor anyone is talking about

He wuz robbed!

18 July 2015 9:00 am

Lucas Debargue, a 24-year-old French pianist, came fourth in the finale of the Tchaikovsky competition in Moscow on 30 June,…