Lebrecht’s Album of the Week
Jiving in the ruins
This dazzling album features young composers in hyperinflationary Berlin
The missing dimension
Warning: contains passages of symphonic transcendence
Not so easy listening
Janacek, Brahms, Bartok: Violin sonatas (Alpha-Classics/Outhere)
Album of the year
Rich pickings in dark times
Our ultimate moment
Outstanding art for troubled times
Make Mozart great again
Music that lifts the heart
Playing that pulls no punches
Kholodenko is in the elite of classical pianists
Sibelius: Symphonies 3&5 (Alpha-Classics)
There’s a new burst of steam from the sauna
The bore of the world
Give this one a miss
Schumann/Mahler: Symphonies 1&2 (Naxos)
Schumann cannot be ignored
Ghostbusted
Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire is heroically pointless
So, farewell then Humza
One man was very impressed with Humza Yousaf’s resignation speech
A talented pianist and a battered piano
Bezhod Abduraimov: Shadows of my ancestors (Alpha-Classics)
Don’t ban the billboards
Campaigns against advertising are pure public health fanaticism
The F-word
A serious accusation should be treated with appropriate seriousness
How can we pay for our cathedrals?
Critics of silent discos in Canterbury Cathedral are silent on how to fund our churches
Ukraine cannot avoid partition
Ukraine must not capitulate and demilitarise, but de-facto partition is now an inevitability
Musical no man’s lands
Two violin concertos fail to inspire
Is Britain on course for abortion up to birth?
Diana Johnson’s amendment creates a medical and legal vacuum that would endanger women and their babies
Moral progress has happened not because of, but in spite of woke activism
People who have enabled falsehoods and abuse cannot take credit for civilisational advances
The Met is watching you
We are passively accepting the development of a society of hyper-surveillance
