Lebrecht Weekly – Ralph Vaughan Williams: Symphonies 2 and 8 (Onyx)
Unless you live in England – and, in most of the country, even if you do – you will have few opportunities to hear live…
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 – Joseph Haydn: Violin concertos (Panclassics)
It must be a seasonal thing. When fresh mushrooms simmer and asparagus gently steams, it starts raining …Haydn. Sure enough, four Haydn releases have landed…
Lebrecht Weekly – Beethoven: Symphonies 4 and 5 (Sony)
In May 2015, visibly frail, the august Nikolaus Harnoncourt stood before his Concentus Musicus Wien and directed two Beethoven symphonies in a reading that followed…
Lebrecht Weekly – Mahler: 3rd Symphony (DSO Live)
What can New York expect of its next music director? Jaap van Zweeden’s recordings can be counted on your fingers and most are – like…
Lebrecht Weekly – Deutsche Grammophon: The Mono Era, 1948-57 (DG)
Slower even than one-horse EMI, Deutsche Grammophon was the last label of consequence to adopt stereo recording in the late 1950s. Its circumspection is, in…
Lebrecht Weekly – Argerich and Barenboim: Live from Buenos Aires (DG)
The question is, what took them so long? Martha Argerich and Daniel Barenboim, born a year apart in Buenos Aires to Jewish mothers of Russian…
Lebrecht Weekly – NDR Symphony Orchestra/Krzysztof Urbanski (Alpha)
Most composer reputations subside in the generation after their death. It’s as if posterity calls time out while deciding its final judgement. Witold Lutoslawski is…
Lebrecht Weekly – Ludmila Berlinskaya: Pasternak And Scriabin (Melodiya)
You knew that the author of Doctor Zhivago was a composer, right? You didn’t. Well sit back; this might take a while. One of the…
Lebrecht Weekly – FolksLied: Beethoven, Britten, Haydn (BR Klassik)
Viennese masters, always short of cash, picked up commissions from rich British tourists for composing drawing-room settings of national heritage. Haydn and Beethoven filled their…
Lebrecht Weekly – Debussy, Elgar &c: violin sonatas (Onyx)
After two years of creative trauma that silenced almost every leading composer, the latter half of the First World War yielded works of extraordinary intimacy.…
