Ravel, Dutilleux, Debussy: Quart de nuit (Deux-Elles)
Norman Lebrecht is left wanting more Dutilleux
Alexander Zemlinsky: The Mermaid (Pentatone)
Norman Lebrecht breaks a rule in his review of The Mermaid
An essential record
Norman Lebrecht reviews Shostakovich: Violin concertos 1&2, performed by Alina Ibragimova and the State Symphony Orchestra of Russia
The sadder side of summer
Tragedy struck Gustav Mahler, the archetypal summer composer, in 1907
Philharmonia – fact is richer than this fiction
Channel 4’s new series set in a Paris orchestra hits multiple wrong notes
The welcome sound of silence
For three days I listened to nothing but birdsong, marvelling at the variety and the volume
Lifetimes of self-isolation
Composing in seclusion
Murdoch must buy the Jewish Chronicle
An open letter from Norman Lebrecht to Rupert Murdoch
Britain needs the Jewish Chronicle
The JC is halfway between a shul and a shvitz
Welcome to the unfrozen North
How Canada reinvented its musical prowess
In praise of the Great British pub
Let us sip, slurp and quaff this weekend, and do our bit to keep the pub trade going
Has the government overreacted to the Coronavirus Crisis?
Toby Young questions whether the drastic measures put in place now will harm us more in the future
Sacred Legal Ordering
Is Jonathan Sumption the man to judge the judges?
On the square
Hannah Betts feeds her addiction to Hermès’s wearable art
Eat more meat!
Jamie Blackett discovers the more meat the better in Charlie Spedding’s book: Stop Feeding Us Lies
Do Prime Ministers lose their seats?
There is no special place in the British electoral system for party leaders