Lebrecht’s Album of the Week
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)
Schoenberg’s morning and night
Arnold Schoenberg: Expressionist Music (Orchid)
Too measured for its own good
Lukas Foss: 1st symphony &c (Naxos)
Sensitivity of a high order
Sibelius and Prokofiev: Violin concertos (Decca)
Surprise and tension
Czech Songs: Magdalena Kozena (Pentatone)
Elgar’s excellence
Elgar: Symphonies (Halle/Oehms)
In praise of the viola
Cantabile: Anthems for viola (Delphian)
Musical no man’s lands
Two violin concertos fail to inspire
The beginning and end of conversation
A catholic sift through humankind’s advent and our eventual, formative babbling and beyond.
What future for Winchester Cathedral Choir?
The choral tradition in the cathedral must be enlivened rather than diluted
Walk tall in these shoes
If you buy the best kit, it will last much longer
Killing the good Samaritans
In the face of monstrous violence, we are losing control of our public spaces
Why are our politicians afraid of politics?
The depoliticisation of policy should concern us all
Brexit: a portrait of political paralysis
There was an exit door, but one which May, the Remainer, was never willing to take
Foxy old Labour
Going after private schools would be an act of pointless institutional vandalism
Reboot camp
In the desperate hunt for stories, adaptations are now all-dominant
Power, money and the English city
The development of English urbanisation
The name game
There’s a meeting of the world’s most important leaders, and Rishi has been invited along, too
Why we all feel let down
Reflecting upon the corrosive power of disillusionment in politics and why our leaders are virtue vacuums who lack both competence and character
