Lebrecht’s Album of the Week
Captivating concertos
Beethoven/Ravel: Concertos (Avanticlassic)
Honky-tonking around
Yuja Wang: The American Album (DG)
A welter of emotions
Rachmaninov: 2nd symphony (Chandos/Vox)
Unveiled enigmas
Shostakovich: Works unveiled (BIS)
Beethoven’s piano maker
Album of the Week: Nannette Streicher’s Fortepiano (Gramola)
Instruments of shock and awe
Jean Sibelius/Arne Nordheim; The Tempest (Naxos/LAWO)
Englishness with an aftertaste
The pleasures of cowpats
An enemy of the best
Nothing routine, showy or ill-considered
A hundred shades of autumn leaves
He grips the attention with every phrase
A guaranteed crowd pleaser
Let the brass section blow cobwebbed memories to kingdom come
Sleepwalking towards abolishing abortion law
How can a crime be a crime if it implies no consequences?
Brussels, capital city of Surrealism
In Brussels, Surrealism lurks in the most unexpected places
Out with the old and in with the new
People are asking why the classic art market has declined — and will it recover?
Gorgeous George returns
George Galloway was delighted to be back — but was anyone delighted to see him?
Doubting the new Ireland
The more traditions have been deconstructed, the more people have experienced a sense of loss
The worm (re)turns
Dune: Part Two is in cinemas — and it’s more of the glorious same
Why not the Taliban Line?
These new overground lines are not sufficiently progressive
How not to investigate the origins of Covid
Wuhan: How the Covid-19 Outbreak in China Spiralled Out of Control by Dali L. Yang
Vibe supremacy
The right has a coolness problem, and Ben Shapiro rapping is not going to help
Old Ireland stirs
The defeat handed to Dublin’s progressive establishment was a reminder of an older Ireland
Take trade experts and their models with a bucket of salt
The negative impact of Brexit on trade, and the economy at large, is still being overstated
