Hans Werner Henze: The Sea Betrayed (Capriccio)
There is an unwritten law in music that composers are left unperformed for ten years after they die. The muting is certainly true of Henze,…
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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Brahms 4th symphony, MacMillan Larghetto for orchestra (Reference Recordings)
Ever since Samuel Barber’s Adagio and Gustav Mahler’s Adagietto became the standard works of public mourning and consolation, the first in the 1940s, the second…
Renaud Capuçon: Un violon à Paris (Warner Classics)
At the start of the first Covid lockdown in March 2020, the violinist Renaud Capucon asked his son Elliott to film a short Dvorak piece…
Paul Hindemith: Mathis symphony (Naxos), Clarinet concerto (Orfeo)
****/*** Hindemith is a house without a door. The immensity of his output – 11 operas, 5 ballets, a dozen concertos, countless works for orchestra,…
London Nights (Capriccio)
In my 20s, on a spare afternoon, I would stroll down the Thames from Westminster to the City marvelling at how little had changed in…
Emily D’Angelo: Enargeia (DG)
Most debut vocal albums consist of familiar arias sung in much the same way as all the big divas and stuffed with agent-approved hype. Not…
Shani Diluka: The Proust Album (Warner)
Every now and then a record arrives that I have been waiting for all my life. As any Marcel Proust reader knows, the author’s search…
The Polish Violin, vol. 2 (Chandos)
I should have been on my way to Warsaw for the Chopin Competition but circumstances intervened and I find myself listening to unknown Poles of…
Round midnight: Dutilleux, Merlin, Schoenberg (Erato)
With the fadeout of two landmark string quartets – Germany’s Artemis in disarray and America’s Emersons to retirement – France’s Quatuor Ebène probably head the…
Beethoven, Birtwistle: A bag of bagatelles
England’s most adventurous living composer never bothered much with the piano. Harrison Birtwistle started out on the clarinet, composed operas in his head and wrote…
