Lebrecht’s Album of the Week
A full-blooded blow-out
Kurt Weill: Symphonies, Seven Deadly Sins (DG)
Lebrecht’s Album of the Year
Not just a great record but an essential one
Not a dull phrase
Ethel Smyth: 2nd sonata &c (Delphian)
Exilic yearnings
Miklos Rozsa: violin concerto (LSO Live)
Impressive yet unmoving
Franz Schmidt: 4 symphonies (Naxos)
Hi-energy nutrients
Schoenfield, Vivier, Bartok &c (Accentus Music)
Poor conduct
Shostakovich: Symphonies 4-6 (Decca)
More than just noise
Berg, Schoenberg, Webern: Piano works (Warner)
Franco-Irish vigour
Augusta Holmès: Symphonic poems (CPO)
Forces of nature
Antonin Dvorak: Symphonies (Warner/Pentatone)
Why Sergeant Martyn Blake was acquitted
There does not appear to be any case for rejecting the decision of the jury
Labour’s favourite banker
Questions can be asked about the relationship between the Labour Party and Anthony Watson
The future that never came
Post-war London was saved from a modernist masterplan
Two cheers for pedestrianisation
Pedestrianisation cannot solve all of Oxford Street’s problems
Not much COP
Holding the climate summit in Baku displays brazen hypocrisy
Bernard-Henri Lévy
France’s celebrity philosopher, war reporter and professional pessimist
A nuclear nothing?
Is Russia’s new nuclear doctrine hot air, or an explosive new factor in world affairs?
England is not yet lost
Where else would you rather be from?
Homes for heroes
MPs are committed public servants who need accomodation in London to do their job
Getting the creeps
How should we cope with the unsettling in everyday life?
Oasis: the good boys of rock and roll
For guitar bands since punk, there’s been a tension between credibility and success
