Lebrecht’s Album of the Week

This is singing as mildly polemical conversation, from her to us

One would never imagine Stalinist oppression was raging all around her

Rediscovering the patriarch of Russian piano composition

Why are so many in the dark about Germany’s leading musical light?

In troubled times for Russia, this album hints at the future of the country’s music

Three sonatas by Brahms? The clarinet adaptation, to no surprise, doesn’t work

Weinberg is an absolute master of intimated emotion

The Czechs always have talent to spare on the bench

Orchestras should be ashamed of their aversion to the composer

2021 has yielded more memorable albums than you can count on the fingers of two hands