Lebrecht Weekly | Nico Muhly: Stranger (AVIE)
Covid has been cruel to rising composers. Two years out, with theatres shut and managements unwilling to commit to new work, is equivalent to having…
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 | Olivier Messiaen – Quartet for the end of time (OUR)
Neither the title of the work nor the circumstances of its creation offer much by way of levity. Messiaen was 31, a soldier in uniform,…
Lebrecht Weekly | Ferdinand Ries: Piano trio and sextets (Hyperion)
While writing a book about Beethoven (to be published next year), I recoiled from many of the pupils, acolytes, secretaries, amanuenses, self-seeking musicians and all…
Lebrecht Weekly | Ralph Vaughan Williams: Symphonies 7 & 9 (Hallé)
Oenologists tell me there is no obvious reason why some fine wines travel and others don’t. It’s the same with symphonic composers. Carl Nielsen will…
Lebrecht Weekly | Erwin Schulhoff: Violin sonatas (Orfeo/FHR)
Eighty years after his cruel death in a Nazi camp, the Czech composer Erwin Schulhoff is having something of a revival this month, with an…
Hans Winterberg: Orchestral works (Capriccio)
Among thousands of composers who were banned and oppressed by the Nazis, the case of Hans Winterberg is seriously peculiar. A German-speaking Prague Jew, Winterberg…
Lebrecht Weekly | Reynaldo Hahn: Poèmes & Valses (Hyperion)
It is a crying shame that Hahn is remembered chiefly as Marcel Proust’s only known lover and not as a creative artist in his own…
Lebrecht Weekly | Henryk Mikolai Gorecki: Piano pieces (Accord)
When an unknown Polish composer burst into the pop charts in 1992 with an ethereal third symphony, I arranged to meet him twice, in Brussels…
Lebrecht Weekly | Arvo Pärt, Poulenc, Stravinsky (BR Klassik)
Just how much we miss Mariss Jansons is manifest in this Munich concert of three sacred works. Jansons, who died in November 2019, aged 76,…
Lebrecht’s Weekly | Allan Pettersson: Barefoot songs (BIS)
Sweden, unlike its neighbours, has no great composer. Norway has Grieg, Finland Sibelius, Denmark Nielsen and Sweden – blank. The one composer who might have…
