Norman Lebrecht
An unreviewable album
The music is beautiful; the context is not
An epochal set
Nielsen: The Symphonies (DG)
Pain, poise and passion
Erich Wolfgang Korngold: String quartets 1-3 (Naxos)
A major talent
Missy Mazzoli: Dark with excessive bright (BIS)
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
March of the guys
How did one honorific colonise our language?
Why young men like Donald Trump
He cuts through the sterility and severity of modern life
Schrödinger’s Culture War
Is it a myth or a tremendous success?
Landscapes of allusion and illusion
On the architecture of recreation
Two-tier justice in Northern Ireland
Why do only some killings deserve investigation?
Leave our pubs alone
New public health proposals are missing the pint
An excess of Fauré
Gabriel Fauré: Violin concerto (Naxos), Complete piano works (Calliope)
Fiddling while Canterbury burns
The new proposals from the Archbishops’ Commission for Racial Justice are depressingly wrongheaded
How to be realistic on Ukraine
There is a route to peace, but it will take compromise
Power and authority
The development of British towns in the 17th and 18th centuries
Much more than mere child’s play
Children’s literature is the platform on which everything else is built
