Lebrecht Weekly | Marmen Quartet Excels in Ligeti & Bartok String Quartets
It’s 30 years since I heard Gyorgy Ligeti explain why he was allowing his first string quartet to be performed after four decades lying in…
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Lebrecht Weekly | Stravinsky, Bartok, Martinu: Works for Violin and Orchestra (BIS)
German violinist Frank Peter Zimmerman realigns Stravinsky’s violin concerto in D wistfully as a late-romantic work, full of yearning for lost youth, homeland and confidence.
The Lebrecht Weekly: Beethoven/Schnittke – Violin concertos (BIS)
In the early 1980s, the phenomenal Latvian violinist Gidon Kremer recorded for Philips an account of the Beethoven concerto that was almost universally reviled. It…
Wilhelm Stenhammar: 2nd symphony, Serenade (BIS)
Ever bought a record just for the opening track? You’d be sorely tempted by this offering from the Gothenburg Symphony and Herbert Blomstedt, a pairing…
Review – Après un Rêve: Fauré, Debussy, Ravel (BIS)
Après un Rêve: Fauré, Debussy, Ravel Christian Svarfvar, violin; Roland Pöntinen, piano BIS 2016. 2183. 61 min 8 s. French music has long held an…
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,…
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 – 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…
