Lebrecht’s Album of the Week
Contemplating infinity
Franz Liszt: Transcendental Etudes (Steinway)
Encompassing a life
RIP Kaija Saariaho
Delicate decadence
A tantalising selection of songs
New work, sounding old
A disappointing new collection
An unreviewable album
The music is beautiful; the context is not
No more than curiosities
Bruno Walter: String quartet, piano quintet (CPO)
An epochal set
Nielsen: The Symphonies (DG)
Pain, poise and passion
Erich Wolfgang Korngold: String quartets 1-3 (Naxos)
Music of the here and now
Valentin Silvestrov: Silent Songs (DG)
A major talent
Missy Mazzoli: Dark with excessive bright (BIS)
Sexy simplicity
For February, try a palette cleanse
Man of letters: reading between the lines
Byron: A Life in Ten Letters by Andrew Stauffer
Realism is not the same as self-pity
There is a limit to how much women can physically protect themselves from men
Web of lies
We can combat misinformation with scepticism and content provenance technology
In praise of borrowed ideas
AI will not be the death of creativity, and could even enhance it
Renewing academia
The Centre for Heterodox Social Science represents a positive alternative to a field increasingly dominated by progressive ideology
What Britain should learn from Singaporean healthcare
How Singapore spends less and sees better outcomes
Crisis, what crisis?
The Spring Budget was a shameless manifesto of complacency and managed decline
Exhibiting military history
Four new exhibitions offer vivid insights into different experiences of war
The female body is the new short skirt
What is being done to some female bodies is changing what all female bodies mean
Scarlet Blake is a man
Indulging the fantasies of violent criminals is endangering women
