Lebrecht’s Album of the Week
Talent and temptation
William Walton: Two symphonies
Schubert à la mould
Prize-winning pianism curdles into self-regard
Small chips off an old block
Soulima Stravinsky (Nimbus)
Baroque in a bad way
Vikingur Olafsson: Opus 109 (DG)
The start of something new
Kurt Weill: Love Life (Capriccio)
Transcending misery
Galina Ustvolskaya: Symphonies 1-5 (BIS)
Prodigiously original
Alkan: Early works (Piano Classics)
Unjustly overlooked but somewhat undercooked
Elsa Barraine: 2 symphonies &c.(CPO)
The sweet sounds of catastrophe
Shostakovich/Britten: Cello works (Decca)
A much-misunderstood composer
The Cosmos of Paul Ben-Haim (CPO)
Most Read
The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
The last ponies on the moor
Dartmoor Ponies are facing an extinction event, thanks to a government Quango
Climate alarmism must not be unquestionable
We have succumbed to herd-like thinking over renewable energy
Paean to a green and pleasant land
The finest living example of that perennial English type, the countryman-writer
An uneasy peace amid the ruins
Four million citizens of Damascus remain uncertain of what the future will bring
How to build a Europe of the peripheries
Resetting Britain’s relations with the EU should not mean being beholden to France and Germany
Form your battalions!
France, for all its flaws, still converts military spending into power — Britain does not
Fence-sitting in a time of peril
Daniel Johnson condemns the Prime
Minister’s impotent handwringing when
America called for help in the Iran war
Wunderbar wines
The love affair between British and German wine is an ancient one
Contra Kemi
Is Kemi Badenoch a principled opponent of identity politics or an anti-woke opportunist?
Rich portrait of a master poet
Auden, Peter Ackroyd
New model Auntie
David Elstein spells out the big decisions that Matt Brittin, the BBC’s new director-general, needs to make very quickly in order to save the Corporation