Lebrecht’s Album of the Week
Poor conduct
Shostakovich: Symphonies 4-6 (Decca)
More than just noise
Berg, Schoenberg, Webern: Piano works (Warner)
Franco-Irish vigour
Augusta Holmès: Symphonic poems (CPO)
Forces of nature
Antonin Dvorak: Symphonies (Warner/Pentatone)
Enthralling eclecticism
Roberto Gerhard: Don Quixote, &c. (Chandos)
Piano in wartime
War poems (Somm)
Devilishly good
Liszt: Faust Symphony (Bis)
Indulgent Italian treats
Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco: Complete string quartets (Naxos)
Illicit fun
Jonathan Leibowitz: Eastern Reflections (Delphian)
Composed and electrifying
Klaus Tennstedt: The Radio Broadcasts (Doremi, 4CDs)
Podcasting while Britain burns
OK, OK, it’s all very deplorable, but Britain’s right wing bloggers still have to make a living
With Conservative friends like these…
The Tories have kept elevating their own ideological opponents
A manifesto for the fun police state
The IPPR recommendations would do more harm to your freedoms than good for your health
Live and let live
Labour must resist the urge to kick field sports
Afrocentrism with a Labour twist
Dawn Butler’s Black History Month video was disturbing as well as weird
Don’t bet on green energy
Groupthink has blinded us into backing solar and wind. Will a big short make us see sense?
Cultural appropriation is here to stay
So-called cultural appropriation is an American obsession, cheerfully ignored by a fast globalising world
Terrible beauty
Does the World Press know what constitutes photojournalism?
The election is still Trump’s to lose
His performance has been weak but his advantages are many
Where are the bodies?
The curious case of Kemi’s “sackings”
The exec on an unfiltered journey
It seems dangerously liable to foster neuroticism and credulity
