Lebrecht’s Album of the Week
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)
Unveiled enigmas
Shostakovich: Works unveiled (BIS)
Instruments of shock and awe
Jean Sibelius/Arne Nordheim; The Tempest (Naxos/LAWO)
Was Houellebecq right?
Reassessing the French novelist vilified for forecasting the Islamicisation of France
The rise of suburbia
The English experiment in liminal living
Cleaning up the town
As cities grew, so did the need for reform and sanitation
The state Will Hutton is in
Dissecting a spiteful attack on British farmers
Am I prepared to help my mum die?
Euthanasia poses impossible questions about life and death
The self-destruction of the centrists
Chaos looms for the Conservative Party
Labour’s inaction on religious persecution
The Freedom of Religion or Belief brief is simply being ignored by the government
Dancing with Beethoven
Beethoven: String Quartets, vol.2 (Chandos)
Three decades of broken promises on immigration
Time and time again, Labour and the Conservatives have failed to deliver on their pledges
South Africa needs better policies, not just better vibes
Political change must lead to economic change as well
The half-forgotten promise of the Jubilee Line
The London Underground line points the way towards a better future
