Lebrecht Weekly | Krzysztof Meyer, Dmitri Shostakovich: Cello-piano sonatas (Kaleidos)
When asked to review compositions by a living musicologist, my inclination would be to catch the night train out of town and not approach a…
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 | Prokofiev: Violin concertos (Channel Classics)
The old French truism that the best is the enemy of the good – le mieux est l’ennemi du bien – does not apply to…
Lebrecht Weekly | Carolin Widmann: L’Aurore (ECM)/ Giya Kancheli: 18 Miniatures (Delos)
****/**** No instrument does introspection like the violin. Ours may not be a time for big violin personalities – the Mischa, Jascha, Toscha , Sascha…
Lebrecht Weekly | Anthony McGill: Brahms sonatas/American Stories (Cedille)
Brahms Sonatas: **** American Stories: *** The principal clarinet of the New York Philharmonic can claim with some ease to be America’s finest. He has…
Weekly Lebrecht | César Franck: Symphony in d minor (Alpha-classics)
The bicentenary of Belgium’s greatest composer has just elapsed without any material change to his depressed reputation. When I was growing up, great conductors vied…
Lebrecht Weekly | Dmitri Shostakovich: Chamber symphonies (SWR Music)
During gaps between COVID shutdowns, when small performances were possible, musicians turned with much ingenuity to chamber symphonies, a neglected genre midway between a Brahms…
Lebrecht Weekly | Bartok, Krenek, Toch, Weill: 1923 (BR Klassik)
Go back a hundred years. This album, a dazzling act of creative programming by Bavarian Radio, covers three young composers in hyperinflationary Berlin and a…
Lebrecht Weekly | Malcolm Arnold: Orchestral works (Chandos)
If Aaron Copland were English, he’d have been Malcolm Arnold. And vice-versa. Sometimes, on this cornucopia collection of Arnold’s music, the Englishman veers just as…
Lebrecht Weekly | Janacek, Brahms, Bartok: Violin sonatas (Alpha-Classics/Outhere)
Spot the odd man out here (the last two words can be read as a production credit). Janacek and Bartok occupied a tranche of east-central…
Lebrecht Weekly | Album of the Year
No-one knew what to expect of 2022. In January, masked or locked down, we gazed into crystal balls of mortality. The chamber music of Harrison…
