Lebrecht Weekly – Nadia Boulanger: Works (Delos/SWR Music)
In half a century of listening to records, I cannot recall ever hearing music by the noted French pedagogue Nadia Boulanger. Revered by a stream…
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 Weekly – Boris Tishchenko: 8th symphony (Naxos)
Try as I might, I can’t stop listening to these late works of a Russian composer who was close to Shostakovich but never tried, as…
Lebrecht Weekly – Not bad music, just not very good Bartók
The unique selling point of this release is what appears to be the first recording of Bartók’s piano quartet in C minor, an unpublished work…
Lebrecht Weekly – Complete piano music of Vítězslava Kaprálová is compelling listening
Don’t look away just because the composer’s name is unfamiliar and has too many syllables. Kaprálová (1915-1940) is a vital link in Czech music, her…
Lebrecht Weekly – A Renée Fleming record that can’t end soon enough
I hope this is not Renée Fleming’s final record. The American soprano, in her late 50s, is closing her stage career with the voice unblemished…
Lebrecht Weekly – Leonard Bernstein: Symphonies 1 and 2 (Naxos)
Bernstein’s three symphonies have not enjoyed much exposure on record. Aside from the Sony and DG releases conducted by the composer, my database calls up…
Lebrecht Weekly – Mieczyslaw Weinberg: Chamber Symphonies (ECM)
When I first started writing about Weinberg quarter of a century ago, there was no consistent western spelling of his surname (mostly printed Vainberg) and…
Lebrecht Weekly – Boris Giltburg Plays Shostakovich
What is remarkable about both piano concertos is that neither was intended for virtuoso performers. Shostakovich wrote the first in 1933 for himself to play…
Lebrecht Weekly – Pietro Mascagni: Guglielmo Ratcliff (RTE Lyric)
Whenever I watch any opera by Mascagni and Leoncavallo other than ‘Cav’ and ‘Pag’ I have no trouble understanding why the two composers went down…
Lebrecht Weekly – Last Album of 2016
Pictures of America: Natalie Dessay (Sony Classical) News of a Natalie Dessay release always stirs me to a fevered expectation. The French soprano, now retired…
