Lebrecht’s Album of the Week
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
Gustav Mahler: 5th symphony (Pentatone)
Its ethos in Mahler remains inimitable
The Kreutzer Project (Avie)
An album sadly more quixotic than chivalric
Franz Schubert: String quintet/Quartettsatz (Chandos)
Intimations of life’s fragility
Jean Sibelius: Orchestral songs (LAWO)
The themes are cruel and cold
Butchering La bohème
Opera is “relatable” already
Living the good life
The rising middle classes were decisive in shaping the late 19th century English town
Homes for heroes
MPs are committed public servants who need accomodation in London to do their job
Trump’s Bitcoin Boom
The UK should clarify its stance on the leading cryptocurrency sooner rather than later
The public sector must reform or die
Too big to fail? It is too big to succeed
Calm down, dears!
Donald Trump offers no threat to Britain’s core ideological commitments and is unlikely to radically change U.S. foreign policy
What do Labour think a conversion therapy is?
There has to be a middle ground between complete denial and complete affirmation
We have to rebalance civil society
To influence power, we must organise
Carole Cadwalladr’s conspiracy theory
The feverish paranoia obscures valid questions
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
The magic of the original stubbornly refused to rise from the dead and save the movie from mediocrity
Developing nations will be forced to choose
Sitting on the fence between China and the USA is unsustainable
