Lebrecht’s Album of the Week
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
Rage captured to perfection
Chamber symphonies were a neglected genre revived during the Covid shutdowns
Jiving in the ruins
This dazzling album features young composers in hyperinflationary Berlin
Album of the year
Rich pickings in dark times
Our ultimate moment
Outstanding art for troubled times
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Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
Racing in revolt
The sport continues along a path towards its collapse, spurning any opportunity for reform
The memory wars
Poland and Ukraine must find some way to stop falling out over history
Farage fumbles
“Stop Farage” seems to be a more effective message than “Farage”
Empire State Madrid
Can a stagnant Spain rediscover the future? Hope lies with its capital
The last ponies on the moor
Dartmoor Ponies are facing an extinction event, thanks to a government Quango
Seeing colour
Donald Locke, Resistant Forms at Camden Art Centre
Lessons on being a rule-taker
The EU reset undermines Brexit and Britain
Labour’s battle of egos
There is little love left to lose between those plotting regicide in Downing Street
Labour’s toxic medicine
The more they treat the symptoms of decline, the worse things get
After the abdication
Springwood is a skillful and intelligent examination of presidential-monarchical relations
London is broken
Local politics can’t offer the renewal our nation’s capital desperately needs