Lebrecht’s Album of the Week
Enthralling eclecticism
Roberto Gerhard: Don Quixote, &c. (Chandos)
Piano in wartime
War poems (Somm)
Devilishly good
Liszt: Faust Symphony (Bis)
Indulgent Italian treats
Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco: Complete string quartets (Naxos)
Illicit fun
Jonathan Leibowitz: Eastern Reflections (Delphian)
Composed and electrifying
Klaus Tennstedt: The Radio Broadcasts (Doremi, 4CDs)
Great big rain showers
C Schumann/Grieg: Piano concertos (Signum)
Giving Mozart a makeover
Mozart: The Salzburg Project (Warner)
Messing with the master’s work
Beethoven: Emperor Concerto; Brett Dean: A Winter’s Journey (Orchid)
Anger and intuition
Mieczyslaw Weinberg: String quartets 6, 13, 15 (Chandos)
Hi-energy nutrients
Schoenfield, Vivier, Bartok &c (Accentus Music)
How Roman women were victimised twice
The victims of abuse could also be degraded by historians
Two cheers for pedestrianisation
Pedestrianisation cannot solve all of Oxford Street’s problems
Must-Miss TV
Your regular Critic round-up of the hottest shows and films.
Silk Road splendour
The bare plain is now home to a million souls, their mosques, cathedrals and some very exclusive hotels
Reparate good times, come on!
The Critic’s Extremely Factual Guide to Slavery Reparations the UK Most Definitely Owes
Why shouldn’t we discriminate against people’s beliefs?
It is not the same as discriminating on the basis of race or sex
Anti-extremism or opportunism?
The UK government should be more careful to distinguish criminal activities from legitimate opinion
Towards a hospitable environmentalism
Green ideas must transcend misanthropy and austerity
The nurseryfication of culture
Alienation has encouraged the normalisation of childishness
Why Twitter needs the libs
Strange as it sounds, we will miss them if they go
