Mendelssohn in Birmingham, vol. 5 (Chandos)
This really useful series has reached a clutch of shorter pieces, all of them offering fresh insights into the life and mind of the travelling…
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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Lise Davidsen/Renee Fleming (Decca)
A soprano at the start of her journey cuts a debut album as another reaches what must be the end. The contrasts are simply too…
Josef Suk: Asrael (Decca)
The symphonic monument Asrael, written in memory of the composer’s wife Otilie and her father Antonin Dvorak, embodies for Czech musicians what Verdi’s Requiem does…
L’Esprit des Six (Claves)
Your challenge for the weekend: name all six of Les Six. Poulenc and Milhaud? That’s average. Arthur Honegger? Good (unless you’re Swiss). Germaine Tailleferre? Very…
Mieczyslaw Weinberg : Symphonies nos 2 and 21 (Deutsche Grammophon)
There was never any question what was going to be my album of the week once the envelope disgorged this little twin-set from DG. I…
David Matthews: 9th symphony (Nimbus Alliance)
You may recognise the composer’s name as one of two brothers who assisted Deryck Cooke and Berthold Goldschmidt in creating the first performing edition of…
Paul Ben-Haim: Evocation (Bis)
When Paul Frankenburger was taken on as Bruno Walter’s assistant conductor in Munich in 1920, he was one among thousands of highly-trained musicians in a…
Rossini: Petite Messe Solonelle (Pentatone)
As proof that the Devil has the best tunes, it is an established fact that atheists write the best religious music. Verdi, Elgar, Saint-Saens, Janacek,…
The Yiddish Cabaret (Harmonia Mundi)
Journalists sometimes write reckless headlines, knowing they will be fish-food in a couple of days. Artists cannot afford that luxury with album titles. The cover…
Mieczyslaw Weinberg: Fantasy for Cello and Orchestra &c. (Claves)
This recording almost slipped by unnoticed. It opens with a neither here nor there performance of the first Shostakovich concerto, neither rippled with black comedy…
