Lebrecht Weekly | Silvestrov: Requiem für Larissa (BR Klassik)
In May 1996, the Ukrainian composer Valentin Silvestrov was informed that his wife, the musicologist Larissa Bondarenko, had died suddenly and unexpectedly in a hospital…
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 | Beethoven/Liszt and Mozart/Alkan: Piano transcriptions (BIS)
Beethoven/Liszt: *** Mozart/Alkan: **** Franz Liszt did more to spread music appreciation than the entire education apparatus of his time. Hearing a piece he admired,…
Lebrecht Weekly | Frederic Rzewski: The People United Will Never Be Defeated (Quartz Music)
The American composer, living in Italy until his death last year, was prompted by the 1973 overthrown of Chilean president Salvador Allende to compose 36…
Lebrecht Weekly | Szymanowski: Stabat Mater (Orfeo), Piano works (DG)
Stabat Mater: **** Piano works: ***** While Karol Szymanowski is unlikely ever to be voted into the Classic FM Hall of Fame, his stock has…
Lebrecht Weekly | Sibelius: Symphonies 3&5 (Alpha-Classics)
Before the great Mahler inundation of the 1980s, every aspirational conductor was expected to know the seven Sibelius symphonies backwards and to perform them on…
Lebrecht Weekly | Hans Rott: Symphony in E minor (Deutsche Grammophon)
Some time in the late 1980s, questions were raised as to whether Gustav Mahler really wrote his first two symphonies. The issue arose after a…
Lebrecht Weekly | John Luther Adams: Sila, the breath of the world (cantaloupe)
Sometimes I listen to music as a public service: just so you don’t have to. The US composer John Luther Adams has a high reputation…
Lebrecht Weekly | Schumann/Mahler: Symphonies 1&2 (Naxos)
The symphonies of Robert Schumann are vastly influential and infrequently performed. There are problems with some of the instrumental, writing, but main impediment is the…
Lebrecht Weekly | Ralph Vaughan Williams: Sixth Symphony (Hyperion/ICA Classics)
***/***** The English composer’s fifth symphony, like Dmitri Shostakovich’s seventh, was a musical turning point in the Second World War. Both exuded confidence in the…
Lebrecht Weekly | Gustav Mahler: 5th symphony (Pentatone)
The opening of this performanced is triply reassuring. The naked trumpet solo is delivered with insolent ease; the sound is distinctively Bohemian; and the phrasing…
