Lebrecht’s Album of the Week: Transatlantic (Orchid)
Winston Churchill’s famous witticism that Britain and America are divided by a common language is equally true of their musical output. In late-romantic repertoire, the…
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’s Album of the Week: Giya Kancheli – Poetry of Silence (Gramola)
Like most composers in the Soviet Union, Kancheli held down two jobs as a music director and a professor and wrote scores to order for…
Lebrecht’s Album of the Week: John Luther Adams – The become trilogy (cantaloupe)
Composers grow middle names to protect themselves against rivals of similar plumage. There were so many Bachs around in JS’s time that he was mostly…
Lebrecht’s Album of the Week: Arvo Pärt – Works for Choir (Cugate Classics)
I chucked out a bunch of new releases this week, mostly solo recitals on esoteric instruments like the harp, the mandolin and the saxophone, though…
CD Review. Love & Death: Navarra String Quartet
Love & Death Navarra String Quartet Orchid Classics ORC100135 Total time: 80 minutes You’ll often hear me telling people a couple of generations down the…
CD Review. Britten: Sinfonia da Requiem
Britten: Sinfonia da Requiem (“The British Project.”) City of Birmingham SO/Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla DG 4839072 Total time: 20:09 Like Beethoven’s Mass in C, which is overshadowed…
Lebrecht’s Album of the Week: Daniil Trifonov – Silver Age (DG)
The second piano by Sergei Prokofiev was the least performed of the five until Evgeny Kissin came along a decade ago and showed it was…
Lebrecht’s Album of the Week: Tigran Mansurian – Con anima (ECM New Series)
Just by reviewing this recording I will be accused of taking sides in the war between Armenia and Azerbaijan over the territory of Nagorno-Karabakh, such…
Lebrecht’s Album of the Week: Dear Mademoiselle (Alpha)
An unprepossessing Parisian teacher of piano and solfège received an unexpected career boost when the victorious General Pershing opened a French music school for Americans at…
Lebrecht’s Album of the Week: Britten – Sinfonia da Requiem (DG)
Like Beethoven’s Mass in C major which is overshadowed by the mighty Missa Solemnis, Benjamin Britten’s Sinfonia da Requiem is sometimes mistaken for the War…
