Lebrecht’s Album of the Week
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
Alban Berg: Violin concerto &c. (Chandos)
A stunning marriage of the tragic and the erotic
Prokofiev, Tcherepnin: The Bark of Yearning (Avi-music)
This is prime Prokofiev
John Adams: Slonimsky’s Earbox (Alpha)
Among his best work
John Cage: Four Walls (Fuga Libera)
More than a little bit mad
Kurt Weill: 2nd symphony, violin concerto (Somm)
A beautiful recording of an esoteric item
On the King’s Road to ruin
The decline of commerce on Chelsea’s celebrated street is a worrying sign for London
Going solo
This Christmas, 40 competitors will face the most difficult sporting challenge on the planet
The great migration
What will Twitter do without its smuggest inhabitants?
God of God, Light of Light
Christmas should point us towards the eternal truths of the Nicene Creed
How the right went wrong
An ill-fated leadership campaign
Vorsprung durch Technik R.I.P.
The vaunted German model really is kaput — bust
The opportunism of anti-police activists
Continued agitation around the death of Chris Kaba is inexcusable
Techno, bombs, and babushkas
A month travelling across Ukraine
A captivating northern star
If Lise Davidsen sneezes, the opera world shuts down
Do our leaders understand the power grid at all?
It seems as if basic facts are being completely ignored
Boris the Innocent
The Johnsonian lexicon has yet to incorporate the word “responsibility”
