Viktoria Mullova – Ice Queen melts to the blues
The most austere of classical violinists had to turn her technique upside down to play jazz. THE poster leapt out at me from the wall…
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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Time to take stock
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Baton handover
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Hall handled TV divas, now for the real thing
TONY HALL will sail into Covent Garden on the wave of sympathy that the British always exhibit for someone who jumps into a shark-infested sea…
Grove has grown too fat
The standards of one of the world’s most respected works of musical reference are slipping. THE past two decades have not been an era of…
My manifesto for a richer life
Election year offers a chance to change radically Britain’s flawed and outdated relationship between government and the arts. LIKE old war-horses to a bugle call,…
Conductors of the New Century
Ten years ago this month, I finished writing a book called The Maestro Myth, which argued that the ‘Great Conductor’ was a thing of the…
Little sympathy for British symphonies
Why are our composers being overlooked? THE term “English Composer” was for so long an oxymoron that even after a century of high achievement it…
Is Covent Garden looking for a new chairman, too?
AS the world awaits a puff of white smoke from Covent Garden, where the announcement of a new chief executive is expected daily, events are…
