Lebrecht Weekly | Did Bartok Play Klezmer?
Did Bartok play klezmer? The Hungarian composer enthused over many authentic forms of folk music and spent his summers tracking them down across the Balkans, the Iberian peninsula and north Africa.
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Lebrecht Weekly | A Tale of Two Piano Concertos
In the early days of long-playing records, a man in a suit at EMI realised that the Grieg and Schumann concertos were half an hour long, in the same key of A minor and would fit on either side of a plate of shellac without requiring fillers.
Lebrecht Weekly | Yundi Gives Mozart a Makeover
Unlike elements in Beijing who had him arrested on phony morals charges, I have never wavered in my belief that Yundi Li is the most interesting and original pianist to emerge from China.
CD Review | Erin Morley, Rose in Bloom, Orchid Classics, 2024
Rose in Bloom Erin Morley, soprano; Gerald Martin Moore, piano Orchid Classics, 2024 One of today’s most in-demand lyric coloratura sopranos, Erin Morley sings roles…
CD Review | Portraits, Emily Carr String Quartet (Leaf Music)
The Emily Carr String Quartet specializes in contemporary musical repertoire and has chosen to adopt the name of a local painter.
Erno von Dohnanyi: My auntie (Capriccio)
The founder of the Dohnanyi dynasty achieved early success, political controversy and posthumous oblivion. His son, Hans, was an anti-Nazi resistant, hanged on Hitler’s orders…
Lebrecht Weekly – Richard Strauss: Through Life and Love (Orchid)
Of the two UK finalists in BBC Cardiff Singer of the World last weekend, many felt the English soprano Louise Alder stood a better chance…
CD Review – Ives: Sonatas for Violin and Piano Nos. 1–4 (White)
Interest in American modernist Charles Ives, as these things often happen, spiked after his death. Even as the post factum father of American modernism for…
