Lebrecht’s Album of the Week
Glenn Gould’s musical laboratory
Glenn Gould: String quartet, opus 1 (CPO)
Music of the here and now
Valentin Silvestrov: Silent Songs (DG)
A major talent
Missy Mazzoli: Dark with excessive bright (BIS)
Captivating concertos
Beethoven/Ravel: Concertos (Avanticlassic)
Honky-tonking around
Yuja Wang: The American Album (DG)
A welter of emotions
Rachmaninov: 2nd symphony (Chandos/Vox)
Unveiled enigmas
Shostakovich: Works unveiled (BIS)
Instruments of shock and awe
Jean Sibelius/Arne Nordheim; The Tempest (Naxos/LAWO)
Englishness with an aftertaste
The pleasures of cowpats
No ordinary musicologist
Krzysztof Meyer, Dmitri Shostakovich: Cello-piano sonatas (Kaleidos)
Most Read
The Book of JO’B
James O’Brien’s aggressive incuriosity is becoming ever more embattled as his worldview crumbles
The rise and fall of Nicola Sturgeon
The former SNP leader squandered her talents in a classic tale of hubris
Fear and fury in Belfast
Violence spiralled out of control in Northern Ireland in the aftermath of a shocking crime
The screaming spires
Oxford University must clarify where it stands on academic freedom
Nigel Farage, community leader
The logic of multiculturalism is turning on its architects
How the “Burnham bind” will rewrite British politics
If Andy Burnham wins in Makerfield, Labour has a bigger opportunity than people think
Standout singers
If Music (Erato), Day of These Days (Delphian) & Eisnacht (Genuin)
The Bible in the dock
Free speech for Christians is still under assault
How EDI corrupts public life
It compels people to accept falsehoods in the name of equality
Like a homecoming
A haunted house
The BBC needs competition
The scandal-ridden Beeb is doomed if it is not held to higher standards
No, the King has not converted
A bizarre conspiracy theory
that Charles III is a Muslim is
easily shown to be false
Three pheasants, one Land Rover
Labour’s new war on pheasant shooting is about who gets to decide how England’s land is used
A bore and a balm
Inferno: Behzod Abdurimov (Alpha Classics)
Spaceships, ghost ships and sheep
The secret sauce of Project Hail Mary: it’s a laugh
The mirage of majesty
Royal charm cannot disguise Britain’s shrinking power in a transactional world