Lebrecht Weekly | Album of the Year 2025
It has been a year of Goldberg Variations – Yunchan Lim, the end of Vikingur Olafsson’s world tour, Mahan Esfahani on harpsichord, a two-guitar version…
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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Lebrecht Weekly | Josef Bohuslav Foerster: 2nd symphony; Cyrano de Bergerac (Naxos)
One of the most vivid portraits of Gustav Mahler was written by a fellow-Czech who, like Mahler, was a wage-slave in 1890s Hamburg. Mahler was…
Lebrecht Weekly | Dmitri Shostakovich: Premiere recordings (Naxos)
I was almost put off listening to this album by a cover note announcing that ‘Shostakovich was known for his fun-loving attitude during his early…
Lebrecht Weekly | Anna Fedorova: Liberté (Channel Classics)
In the days when records had two sides and plane tickets were paper booklets, the Grieg piano concerto would get paired with the Schumann on…
Lebrecht Weekly | Franz Schubert: 4-hand piano music (Erato)
Schubert, in the final year of his short life, feared he was dying and hoped he was not. Some doctors thought his symptoms were neurotic…
Lebrecht Weekly | Vikingur Olafsson: Opus 109 (DG)
Some of us remember a time when November landed with a thump of label adverts, big wodges of glossy pages that promised nirvana in the…
Lebrecht Weekly | Kurt Weill: Love Life (Capriccio)
A failed Broadway musical by Kurt Weill arrests my attention. Reading that Weill deemed it ‘pregnant with possibilities for the non-realistic theatre’, I cancel all calls.…
Lebrecht Weekly | Three Phenomenal Composers Banned by the Nazis
Pick ‘n’ mix albums hardly ever work, and for the same reason that it’s unwise to get into a hotel lift with three composers. None…
Lebrecht Weekly | Mikis Theodorakis: 1st symphony (TYXart.de)
The great Greek composer is known for unforgettable film scores – Zorba, for instance – and overwhelming song cycles – Ballad of Mauthausen – each…
Lebrecht Weekly | Walton, Britten, Tippett: Works for piano and orchestra (BIS)
If ever you need proof that the best is the enemy of the merely good, listen no further than pianist Clare Hammond’s new release of…
