Music

Defend the arts … before it’s too late

It will take more than a new government and a bonfire of policy documents to put things right

On Music
Beef stew

Drake might be literally alive, but in terms of reputation, this was a murder

On Pop
Giving Mozart a makeover

Mozart: The Salzburg Project (Warner)

Lebrecht's Album of the Week
Riffs or rigour?

Arts practice has gained the upper hand over scholarship

Features
Schoenberg’s morning and night

Arnold Schoenberg: Expressionist Music (Orchid)

Lebrecht's Album of the Week
Too measured for its own good

Lukas Foss: 1st symphony &c (Naxos)

Lebrecht's Album of the Week
What future for Winchester Cathedral Choir?

The choral tradition in the cathedral must be enlivened rather than diluted

Artillery Row
Surprise and tension

Czech Songs: Magdalena Kozena (Pentatone)

Artillery Row
Of course we need opera

Click-hungry editors should stop enabling philistinism

Artillery Row
Elgar’s excellence

Elgar: Symphonies (Halle/Oehms)

Artillery Row