Lebrecht’s Album of the Week
A lopsided performance
Brahms: Double concerto (Sony)
New work, sounding old
A disappointing new collection
Sonatas after slaughter
1919 Coda: Janacek, Boulanger, Debussy, Elgar (Delphian)
Pain, poise and passion
Erich Wolfgang Korngold: String quartets 1-3 (Naxos)
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)
Let’s change the cultural meaning of the penis
Our genitals do not entitle us to anything
The age of the news influencer
TikTok reveals a broader existential crisis facing the media and our consumption of the news
How capitalism gave women leisure
Feminist anti-capitalists are spinning delusions about economic history
Keir the coward
Narrowing the borders of permissible opinion will not solve Britain’s societal crises
The war on noticing in modern Britain
How DEI initiatives and the worldview behind them dull people’s natural perceptiveness
Turning a blind eye to a tilted playing field
Not only is it a page-turner, it’s also an essential manual for defending women’s sport
Murders for February
Hitler, Harlem and the high-life feature in this month’s murder mystery haul
Why Labour has the best history books
Labour continues to blunder down that long blind Blairite alleyway, unable to turn back or find an exit
Where is so much gender confusion coming from?
The scope of inquiry into gender and young people should be expanded to schools
A bitter pill
Women and girls are losing medical advice and safeguards in the name of “freedom”
Ferrari and the terrible joy
Michael Mann’s Ferrari shows how ambiguity and contradiction fuels us
