The Lebrecht Weekly: Heitor Villa-Lobos – Violin sonatas (Naxos)
Covid has narrowed our outlook so severely that we are hardly aware of the world abroad. Brazil has suffered 19 million cases with more than…
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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The Lebrecht Weekly: Nino Rota – Chamber music (Alpha)
In the summer of 1943, and for reasons still unclear, Milan’s best young composer moved to the undeveloped south of Italy and stayed there for…
The Lebrecht Weekly: The King’s Alchemist (Willowhayne Records)
If you are ever asked at Heathrow Airport to prove your residency by naming a work of English music, this album will do nicely. Leaving…
The Lebrecht Weekly: Beethoven/Schnittke – Violin concertos (BIS)
In the early 1980s, the phenomenal Latvian violinist Gidon Kremer recorded for Philips an account of the Beethoven concerto that was almost universally reviled. It…
The Lebrecht Weekly: Vítězslava Kaprálová – Waving Farewell (Naxos)
The Czech composer Vitezlava Kapralova died in the early weeks of the German occupation of France, at the age of 25. Two months before, she had…
The Lebrecht Weekly: Resch/Beethoven: String quartets (Genuin)
The trouble with most music by unfamiliar contemporary composers is that the listener has no idea where it’s coming from. The Austrian Gerald Resch gets…
The Lebrecht Weekly: Zemlinsky/Schreker – Orchestral works (Onyx)
In the early years of the 20th century, when Arnold Schoenberg jumped off the moving harmonic train into a ditch of atonality, his friends were…
The Lebrecht Weekly: Peteris Vasks – Musica serena (BR Klassik)
Latvia’s answer to Estonia’s Arvo Pärt, Vasks writes long, slow, contemplative works with a strong feeling for lakes, forests and landscape. The title piece, for…
The Lebrecht Weekly: Dreams of a New Day – Songs by Black Composers (Cedille)
In a year when every US institution is trying to fly multicultural credentials, the unanswered question is whether classical music has anything positive to contribute.…
The Lebrecht Weekly: Prokofiev 6th/Myaskovsky 27th symphonies (LAWO Classics)
I once had an all-night argument with Valery Gergiev about 20th century Russian composers. This was before Gergiev had become a propaganda tool of the…
