Grazyna Bacewicz: Piano works (Ondine)
Every time I relisten to Bacewicz, I wonder whether prejudice does not have something to do with her lack of exposure. Her male colleague were…
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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Alexander Scriabin: Mazurkas (Hyperion)
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It’s about time Germans got to grips with their greatest modern composer. While Berlin plays reams of Rihn and Munich wallows in Orff, the life…
Nastasia Khrushcheva: Normal Music (Melodiya)
Neither the sleeve notes nor the internet tells us much about the composer of this hypnotic and vaguely disturbing album from the Russian state label.…
Brahms: Clarinet sonatas (BIS), French clarinet music (Delphian)
**/**** January is the month when we all stop drinking, go vegan, return to the office and listen to clarinet music. At least, that’s the…
Mieczyslaw Weinberg: Chamber symphonies 2&4, chamber music (Naxos/Evil Penguin Classic)
At the turn of the century there was hardly any Weinberg to be found on record, except on scratchy old Soviet LPs. Two decades on,…
Pohadka (Chandos)
The Czechs and Hungarians, two of the most musical nations on earth, keep their treasures as far apart as the remote languages they speak. The…
Malcolm Arnold: A centenary celebration (Somm)
The hundredth anniversary of a composer’s birth is usually marked by a respectful revival. Not in Malcolm Arnold’s case. The English establishment has always held…
Album of the Year 2021
Choosing an album of the year is never easy. In a pandemic period of alternating isolation and emergence, there are additional pressures and distortions. A…
Ferrucio Busoni: Elegies (Chandos)
Gustav Mahler, who disliked flashy soloists, used to say that his mood picked up if he saw Busoni’s name on the programme. The Italian-Austrian, half-Jewish…
