Shostakovich: Symphonies 4 and 11 (Deutsche Grammophon)
Two problematic symphonies by a tortured composer are despatched by the Boston Symphony and its Latvian conductor with near-nonchalance. The 4th, withheld by the composer…
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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Wolf-Ferrari: The two piano trios (Brilliant Classics)
Universally popular in the first half of the 20th century, the music of Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari has vanished into thin air. A Venetian of German ancestry…
Muzio Clementi: Keyboard sonatas (Naxos)
The problem with Clementi is that there are no standout works. Where most famous composers write a couple of pieces that are gripping enough to…
Haydn: Cello concertos (Pentatone)
There’s a debate going on among agents as to whether it is better for an artist to have an exclusive record contract or to work…
Bernstein: The 3 symphonies (Warner Classics)
Numerous bids are being made in this centennial year to redeem Leonard Bernstein’s three symphonies from their fatal flaws. None that I have heard makes…
Rachmaninov: Etudes-tableaux (Hyperion)
I need to declare an interest. I have described Steven Osborne elsewhere as the most interesting British pianist of his generatiom, a declaration which practically…
Georg Friedrich Händel: Johannes-Passion (CPO)
Did you know Handel wrote a St John’s Passion? Me, neither, and I’m still not convinced. This score was discovered in the Berlin Royal Library…
Dame Sarah Connolly: Come to me in my Dreams (Chandos)
What are we to make of songs that were written for people to sing and play at home, when nobody plays at home any more?…
John McLeod: Out of the Silence (Delphian)
The late Michael Kennedy, lifelong Telegraph critic, once told me he lost interest in new music in his late sixties. Michael had known Ralph Vaughan…
Bach violin concertos (Deutsche Grammophon)
Averse as I am to teenage prodigies, I heard Daniel Lozakovich in a Berlin nightclub this week and had no doubt from the first touch…
