Lebrecht’s Album of the Week
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
Isabella Leonarda; A portrait (Brilliant Classics)
Passion and originality blossom behind the walls of the cloister
Nico Muhly: Stranger (AVIE)
This new album of three works offers quiet empathy more than overwhelming emotion
Olivier Messiaen: Quartet for the end of time (OUR)
Messiaen’s quartet, first performed in a freezing barracks in 1941, is a thing of great beauty
Ferdinand Ries: Piano Trio and Sextets (Hyperion)
Ludwig van Beethoven’s former secretary and pupil was no forgettable curiosity
Is Donald Trump the new Hillary Clinton?
His campaign is failing to reach out to enough voters
A taste of history
Travel to Italy to savour the majestic “Barolo of the South”
Back in the arena
If you liked Gladiator, you’ll like Gladiator II
More than just noise
Berg, Schoenberg, Webern: Piano works (Warner)
War, peace and city streets
How English towns survived the Blitz and entered the modern world
The war on women’s spaces
Roxanne Tickle’s legal triumph is nothing to giggle at
The future that never came
Post-war London was saved from a modernist masterplan
Love, death and drink
Does inspiration really come out of a bottle?
50 years ago…
Ali dances, bounces, beckons Foreman on, matador against bull
Let’s leave the Commonwealth
There is no point in being a member just to be browbeaten about our past
Defending life and liberty
Abortion buffer zones hurt, rather than help women and babies
