Lebrecht’s Album of the Week
Make Mozart great again
Music that lifts the heart
Defiantly playful
A composer worth discovering and rediscovering
Sibelius: Symphonies 3&5 (Alpha-Classics)
There’s a new burst of steam from the sauna
Major and minor talent
Rott’s influence, Mahler’s genius
The bore of the world
Give this one a miss
Schumann/Mahler: Symphonies 1&2 (Naxos)
Schumann cannot be ignored
Franz Schubert: String quintet/Quartettsatz (Chandos)
Intimations of life’s fragility
Jean Sibelius: Orchestral songs (LAWO)
The themes are cruel and cold
Prokofiev, Tcherepnin: The Bark of Yearning (Avi-music)
This is prime Prokofiev
John Cage: Four Walls (Fuga Libera)
More than a little bit mad
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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
Critical briefing: the Chişinău Declaration
Why the Chişinău Declaration is more of a symbolic gesture than a chance for real reform
A load of Bolls
Citizen Vigilante is artless MAGA slop
Selling the commons
How Britain put a price on nature
Nowhere left to go
Labour is running out of cash, authority and time.
Will London fall?
If the Greens take London, what might happen to policing?
Heart of darkness
Alexander Adams encounters an unflinching master of sex and death in Vienna
When all you have is a Hermer
Why Lord Hermer is a strange fit as Attorney General
The meaning of Zack Polanski
The icon of geriatric millennials is one of life’s drifters
Don’t kowtow to cry-bullies
Why Kezia Dugdale can’t apologise enough
Canis lupus labor
Europe is a wolf coming up the path to devour the Labour Party
The futility of right-wing cancel culture
Trying to get left-wing comedians fired for edgy jokes is stupid as well as wrong