Lebrecht Weekly – British Clarinet Concertos 2 (Chandos)
An unknown work by Benjamin Britten sets the pulse racing. It turns out to be fragments of a concerto he started writing for Benny…
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 – Mahler: 1st Symphony (BR Klassik)
Yannick Nézet-Séguin’s interpretation of Mahler’s first symphony is beautifully played by Munich’s (some say Germany’s) best orchestra and thoughtfully structured by an impressive guest conductor.…
Lebrecht Weekly – Rudi Stephan, Albéric Magnard (accentus)
These two composers are joined by tragic deaths on opposite sides of the First World War. Stephan, a Munich avant-gardist, was the only soldier…
Lebrecht Weekly – Ivry Gitlis (SWR/Naxos Deutschland)
Great violinists come in two forms: stars and legends. Think about it. Jascha Heifetz was a star, Nathan Milstein a legend. One was a household…
Lebrecht Weekly – Yevgeny Sudbin: Medtner/Rachmaninov (BIS)
Most concert pianists are like modern tennis players. They know that only two or three men and women are ever going to win the major…
Lebrecht Weekly – Bartók: 44 Duos (Decca)
It has been an age since I looked to my shelves for a work by a major composer and found that, after 40 years of…
Lebrecht Weekly – Wihan Quartet: Dvořák/Janáček (Nimbus Alliance)
It must be something in the plum juice that produces, generation after generation, a cluster of distinctive string quartets from the country constituted as the…
Lebrecht Weekly – Manhattan Intermezzo (Naxos)
Editor’s Note: La Scena Musicale is pleased to welcome back contributor Norman Lebrecht for his weekly CD reviews, which will be posted online on Mondays…
Propaganda Wars
How the arts are being polluted by politics. A BBC television researcher rang the other day, canvassing my views on the evils of corporate sponsorship.…
Bands play on as crisis looms
The bad news outweighs the good for the world’s orchestras FOR those readers who have been clamouring for good news, here’s an inch or two.…
