Lebrecht’s Album of the Week
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)
Schoenberg’s morning and night
Arnold Schoenberg: Expressionist Music (Orchid)
Too measured for its own good
Lukas Foss: 1st symphony &c (Naxos)
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The rise and fall of Nicola Sturgeon
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Fear and fury in Belfast
Violence spiralled out of control in Northern Ireland in the aftermath of a shocking crime
The screaming spires
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Nigel Farage, community leader
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Dear Prudence
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Don’t kowtow to cry-bullies
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The joys of village cricket
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After the flood
Net migration may be falling, but the long tail of Britain’s recent immigration regime ensures the debate is far from over
Murders for April
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Botox, bodies and bogus feminism
What Planned Parenthood’s turn to Botox tells us about feminism today
How to build a Europe of the peripheries
Resetting Britain’s relations with the EU should not mean being beholden to France and Germany
Literature amid lies
Leonardo Sciascia sought justice in the face of cynicism
A step forward for academic freedom
It is time to take the fight to censoriousness in higher education
It’s high time we banned dogs
The tide is turning against these slobbering beasts
Hope and stories
Bicinia (Claves)