Lebrecht Weekly | Sibelius: 7 symphonies and Tapiola (Decca)
The record industry never makes the fuss about a Sibelius cycle that it does with Beethoven and Mahler. Not sure why not. Maybe Sibelius sells…
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 | Gustav Mahler: 4th Symphony (Pentatone)
Four vital traditions inform this recording, the first in a planned cycle by the Czech Philharmonic and its Russian-Jewish chief conductor Semyon Bychkov. Mahler grew…
Lebrecht Weekly | British piano concertos (Lyrita); British music for strings #3 (CPO)
Lyrita: **** CPO: *** A Times obituary this week for Joseph Horovitz reckons that he could not decide if he was a composer of serious…
Lebrecht Weekly | Rachmaninov: Sonata #1, Moments musicaux (Hyperion)
Why, people have been asking for about 120 years, is Rachmaninov so popular? The music is morbid to miserable, the melodies are unhummable and mere…
Lebrecht Weekly | Mieczyslaw Weinberg: Cello works (Evil Penguin), Piano sonatas 1-3 (Polskie Radio)
Evil Penguin: ***** Polskie Radio: **** When I first came across Weinberg 30 years ago, he was listed as Vainberg in western dictionary and the…
Lebrecht Weekly: Metamorphosen (Chandos)
In mid-March 1945 Richard Strauss set about writing a suite for string orchestra that would reflect his feelings at the surrounding devastation. The eighty year-old…
Lebrecht weekly: Ligeti and Kodaly: Lux Aeterna (OUR Recordings)
One should never let too much time pass without hearing some Ligeti. The Hungarian has such an ethereal turn of ear that any chorus he…
Lebrecht Weekly: Harrison Birtwistle: Chamber works (BIS)
Into every musical life, a little Birtwistle must fall. Do not read anything pejorative into that statement. I have been smitten by the British composer’s…
Lebrecht Weekly: Schulhoff, Popov: String quartets (QBT)
Nothing navigates the edge of tension more graphically than a string quartet. Two works by composers lost in the political mists of eastern Europe deliver…
Joyce DiDonato: Eden (Erato); Asmik Grigorian: Rachmaninov (Alpha)
DiDonato, Rating: 4 stars Grigorian, Rating: 5 stars The American mezzo-soprano is touring a programme of works that are designed to reconnect humanity to…
