Lebrecht Weekly – Jean Sibelius: Symphonies 3, 6 and 7 (BIS)
This is one the world has been waiting for. The Minnesota Orchestra’s partnership with the Finnish conductor Osmo Vänskä is a treasure of our times,…
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 – F. X. Mozart/Clementi: Piano Concertos (Hyperion)
Mozart had a little boy, born four months before he died. Salieri recommended that the kid, Franx Xaver, should stick with the family trade and…
Lebrecht Weekly – Polish Violin Concertos (Naxos)
There used to be a truth, universally acknowledged across the record industry, that you could put out unfamiliar music with a famous artist or popular…
Lebrecht Weekly – Felix Mendelssohn: Songs without words (BIS)
As a general rule, I would rather eat porridge that has been left to stand overnight than listen to music of the romantic era being…
Lebrecht Weekly – Glazunov, Khachaturian: Violin Concertos (Avanti)
The archetype Russian violin concerto – Tchaikovsky’s – looms so large over the musical landscape that all others seem no more than sidebars. Two concertos…
Lebrecht Weekly – Lucas Debargue (Sony)
This is a great time for piano lovers, a terrible one for young pianists. The past four years have flung up the most phenomenal range…
Lebrecht Weekly – Dmitri Shostakovich: piano trios and viola sonata (Decca)
The three works on this album encompass an entire composing life. The first piano trio was written by a 17 year-old for his girlfriend in…
Lebrecht Weekly – Cameron Carpenter: All you need is Bach (Sony)
Before we go any further, let me declare once and for all that I am done with three stars. Everywhere else, critics award three stars…
Lebrecht Weekly – Feldman, Crumb: Piano pieces (Hyperion)
Every few months I take my ears out for a cleaning. This is not as easy as it sounds. Finding music that is original, unfamiliar,…
Lebrecht Weekly – Anonymous: Six concertos (CPO)
The best fun I’ve had all week is trying to identify the composers of six 18th century concertos that have turned up in the vaults…
