Beethoven, Birtwistle: A bag of bagatelles
England’s most adventurous living composer never bothered much with the piano. Harrison Birtwistle started out on the clarinet, composed operas in his head and wrote…
Norman Lebrecht
Norman Lebrecht
Norman Lebrecht is a prolific writer on music and cultural affairs. His blog, Slipped Disc, is one of the most popular sites for cultural news. He presents The Lebrecht Interview on BBC Radio 3 and is a contributor to several publications, including the Wall Street Journal and The Standpoint. Visit every Friday for his weekly CD review // Norman Lebrecht est un rédacteur prolifique couvrant les événements musicaux et Slipped Disc, est un des plus populaires sites de nouvelles culturelles. Il anime The Lebrecht Interview sur la BBC Radio 3 et collabore à plusieurs publications, dont The Wall Street Journal et The Standpoint. Vous pouvez lire ses critiques de disques chaque vendredi.
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CD Review: Voice of Nature: The Anthropocene (Decca)
Voice of Nature: The Anthropocene Songs by Fauré, Grieg, Hahn, Liszt, Nico Muhly, Kevin Puts, Caroline Shaw Renée Fleming, soprano. Yannick Nézet-Séguin, piano Decca 4852089…
Piazzolla Cien Anos (Century Records)
One of the sadder casualties of the Covid shutdown has been the centenary plans for Astor Piazzolla (1921-1992), the Argentine composer whose music exquisitely captures…
CD Review: Solem Quartet – The Four Quarters (Orchid)
Thomas Adès: The Four Quarters (works for string quartet by Adès and others) Solem Quartet − The Four Quarters (Orchid) ★★★★★ Emerging from the depths of…
Lebrecht Weekly: Paderewski, Stojowski: violin sonatas (CPO)
We don’t hear much of Ignacy Jan Paderewski these days, let alone his friend Zygmunt Stojowski. The first prime minister of independent Poland has been…
Nikolai Kapustin: Piano Concerto No. 4, Concerto for Violin & Piano & Chamber Symphony
Nikolai Kapustin had to die before the world took note of his music. A love of jazz left him scratching a living in Moscow as…
Erno von Dohnanyi: My auntie (Capriccio)
The founder of the Dohnanyi dynasty achieved early success, political controversy and posthumous oblivion. His son, Hans, was an anti-Nazi resistant, hanged on Hitler’s orders…
Alice Sara Ott; Echoes of Life (Deutsche Grammophon)
The German-Japanese pianist, a trophy artist on Deutsche Grammophon, is facing the onset of multiple sclerosis with courage, positivism and ingenuity. On her tenth album…
The Lebrecht Weekly: Shostakovich – Piano concertos 1&2; piano trio 2 (Linn)
One of the perils of the Covid period is the forgetfulness . We no longer remember the physical thrill of hearing a favourite work and…
The Lebrecht Weekly: Wilhelm Furtwängler – 1st symphony (CPO)
In the spring of 1943, with millions being murdered across the continent of Europe, Germany’s wealthiest conductor summoned the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra to rehearse a…
