The Lebrecht Weekly: György Ligeti – The 18 Etudes (Hyperion)
Among composers of the post-War avant-garde, Ligeti is now the most performed. You can go from one end of the year to the other without…
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: Hungarian Serenade (Naxos)
Half a century after Bartok and Kodaly toured the Hungarian plains with an early Edison phonograph in search of authentic Magyar music, students of the…
The Lebrecht Weekly: Elgar – Violin concerto/Violin sonata (Warner)
The first soloist I ever heard play Elgar was the French cellist Paul Tortelier at the Royal Festival Hall – elegant, expressive and chastely romantic,…
CD Review: John Luther Adams (Seatle Symphony/Ludovic Morlot)
John Luther Adams: The Become Trilogy Seattle Symphony/ Ludovic Morlot Cantaloupe CA2116 (3 CDs) Composers grow middle names to protect themselves against rivals of similar plumage.…
The Lebrecht Weekly: Anna Clyne – Mythologies (Avie)
The late Michael Kennedy, an honest critic if ever there was, told me that on reaching the age of sixty his ears gave up on…
The Lebrecht Weekly: Shostakovich: Symphonies 9 and 10 (LSO Live)
If Gianandrea Noseda were not already music director in Washington DC and at Zurich Opera, he would probably be top of the London Symphony Orchestra’s…
The Lebrecht Weekly: Edward Elgar – Partsongs, From the Bavarian Highlands (BR Klassik)
Sir Simon Rattle, who became a German citizen this week, prefers to work with an English chorusmaster. In Berlin he had his former Birmingham partner,…
Lebrecht’s Album of the Week: Copland, Nielsen, MacMillan – Clarinet concertos (Delphian)
The sound I miss most in our orchestral silence is the unexpected wail of a clarinet, in pain or pleasure like a cat in coitus,…
Lebrecht Weekly: Good Night! (Erato)
Musical lullabies can quickly outlast their welcome. Everybody’s had the Brahms Wiegenlied sung to them at some point in infancy and many have experienced the…
Lebrecht’s Album of the Week: Ralph Vaughan Williams’ 5th symphony and Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress (Hyperion)
At the midpoint of the Second World War, our parents looked to two composers for symphonies of hope and vision. Such was the excitement attending the 7th…
