Lebrecht’s Album of the Week
Wit as well as social conscience
Avril Quartet: Claires Obscures (Etcetera)
Pleasure and persuasion
Jean Sibelius: Symphonies 1-7 (Ondine)
All the Mendelssohn you will ever need
Mendelssohn: Symphonies and Oratorios (Deutsche Grammophon)
Bach in black
CPE Bach: Berlin Symphonies (BIS)
Eine kleine Berlinermusik
Berlin! Berlin! Berlin! (Bis); Love Maps (TXYart)
Symphonies have life
John McCabe: 2 symphonies and cello concerto (Signum Classics)
Joyous genre-bending
Milestones (Signum Classics)
Two faces of America
Copland: 3rd symphony, Walker 5th (LSO Live)
Exile and exaltation
Bohuslav Martinu: The Symphonies (Deutsche Grammophon)
Talent and temptation
William Walton: Two symphonies
Most Read
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Solent mean
Solent PhD student frozen out after introducing Roger Scruton into seminar
Night of the big bins
How Count Binface changed the face of Britain forever
Reimagining the people’s palace
A building that deserves to be admired as an example of intelligent and sophisticated urban planning
We must strengthen British capitalism
Having a successful capitalist system depends on having a strong state
Our new five-party system
First-past-the-post no longer means
an electoral carve-up between the
Tories and Labour, allowing “fringe”
parties real political influence
Migration musings
A new book on immigration is welcome in its honestly and openness
A below-par Riley is still better than most
The Palm House by
Gwendoline Riley; My Death by Lisa
Tuttle; Still Talking by Lore Segal
How to fix the economy
A repentant ex-financial trader tells all
Hope and stories
Bicinia (Claves)
Dear Prudence
A reflection on the Tory Party’s historic suspicion of interventionism
Westminster is not Manchester
Andy Burnham would find being the PM a lot more difficult than being a mayor
Infamous five
To most of us, the Cambridge Five are just names
Murders for June
Bodies in Brighton and spies in Scotland are features of our first crop of summer murder mysteries