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
So many voters got it wrong
The ignorant masses have betrayed democracy
Two cheers for Trump on free speech
The President-elect cannot just protect speech that he likes
The empty road to serfdom
“Vision Zero” is a tyrannical anti-driving dream
The great British giveaway
The handover of the Chagos Islands reflects a wider lack of realism in UK foreign policy
A cruel choice
Today’s euthanasia bill risks sending Britain down a dark path
Are all Christians monks?
George Guiver’s book exudes down-to-earthiness, bordering on irreverence
Vorsprung durch Technik R.I.P.
The vaunted German model really is kaput — bust
Anti-Christian persecution is an international problem
Britain should use its diplomatic influence to help
When America ignored a slaughter
Whatever America’s flaws, its absence from the global stage leaves a space quickly filled by far more malevolent actors
How the Tories can win again
The new leader of the Conservatives must reach an important, ignored sector
Megalomania
Megalopolis is a gaudy, self-indulgent mess
