Lebrecht Weekly | The Kreutzer Project (Avie)
Beethoven’s Kreutzer Sonata was longer and more complex than any concerto of its time. It inspired a novella by Leo Tolstoy and a string quartet…
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 | Franz Schubert: String quintet/Quartettsatz (Chandos)
I had planned to review something quite different this week, but the death of The Queen had me reaching for Schubert, who knew as much…
Lebrecht Weekly | Jean Sibelius: Orchestral songs (LAWO)
Sibelius, like Mahler, stuck to what he knew. He wrote no opera and hardly any chamber music, just symphonies and songs. His concentration of means…
Lebrecht Weekly | Alban Berg: Violin concerto &c. (Chandos)
This is Alban Berg as you’ve never heard him before. The English conductor Sir Andrew Davis has spent lockdown time orchestrating two works that Berg…
Lebrecht Weekly | Prokofiev, Tcherepnin: The Bark of Yearning (Avi-music)
Western orchestras take a binary view of the Russian 20th century. Rachmaninov, Stravinsky, Prokofiev and Shostakovich are good for business, the rest are box-office death.…
Lebrecht Weekly | John Adams: Slonimsky’s Earbox (Alpha)
When did John Adams become John Adams? Around 1995, according to his own narrative, when he broke with repetitive minimalism and found a more variegated…
Lebrecht Weekly | John Cage: Four Walls (Fuga Libera)
When John Cage came to Moscow in the summer of 1988 it was not so much a convergence of opposites as a validation of the…
Lebrecht Weekly | Matangi: Outcast (PIAS)
I dithered for weeks over whether or not to review this release, for reasons that will soon become clear. In the course of my indecision…
Lebrecht Weekly | Kurt Weill: 2nd Symphony, Violin Concerto (Somm)
Banned in Berlin and exiled in March 1933, Kurt Weill stayed for a while in Paris where he wrote a symphonic work to a commission…
Lebrecht Weekly | Isabella Leonarda – A portrait (Brilliant Classics)
In the inexhaustible search for women in history, Isabella Leonarda (1620-1704) has emerged from the mists of Novara as the most prolific composer of the…
