Lebrecht’s Album of the Week
Jiving in the ruins
This dazzling album features young composers in hyperinflationary Berlin
The missing dimension
Warning: contains passages of symphonic transcendence
Not so easy listening
Janacek, Brahms, Bartok: Violin sonatas (Alpha-Classics/Outhere)
Album of the year
Rich pickings in dark times
Our ultimate moment
Outstanding art for troubled times
Make Mozart great again
Music that lifts the heart
Playing that pulls no punches
Kholodenko is in the elite of classical pianists
Sibelius: Symphonies 3&5 (Alpha-Classics)
There’s a new burst of steam from the sauna
The bore of the world
Give this one a miss
Schumann/Mahler: Symphonies 1&2 (Naxos)
Schumann cannot be ignored
Don’t bite the hand that feeds the birds
The government’s flawed biodiversity analysis endangers successful state-funded schemes
Aggers declares — the end of an era
It has been an assured innings, and a long one
Still knocking on the door
For all the promises, subpostmasters are still waiting for compensation
The US city on the banks of the Thames
Critics don’t care for Canary Wharf, considering it a monument of 1980s corporatism
The problem with EDI
Equality, diversity and inclusion policies are constraining free thought and dividing people
Advertisements for themselves
Michael Craig-Martin and the sad afterlife of conceptual art
(DTB) Don’t Trust Boris
The former prime minister is up to his old tricks
A nuclear nothing?
Is Russia’s new nuclear doctrine hot air, or an explosive new factor in world affairs?
Labour’s economic policies are incoherent
Labour risks collapsing under the weight of its own inner economic contradictions
Liberal myths of the “good old ways”
Donald Trump’s foreign policy is not so very different from the Democrats’ imagined golden age of American leadership
If Donald Trump wins, it’s over
Three assassination attempts prove irrefutably that Trump is guilty of inciting violence
