CD Review: Voice of Nature: The Anthropocene (Decca)
Voice of Nature: The Anthropocene Songs by Fauré, Grieg, Hahn, Liszt, Nico Muhly, Kevin Puts, Caroline Shaw Renée Fleming, soprano. Yannick Nézet-Séguin, piano Decca 4852089…
Browsing: Decca
Lebrecht Weekly – A Renée Fleming record that can’t end soon enough
I hope this is not Renée Fleming’s final record. The American soprano, in her late 50s, is closing her stage career with the voice unblemished…
Daily News Roundup: 14 December 2016
Decca launches a publishing division and it has appointed Natasha Baldwin as the head. Decca Publishing will help expand opportunities for ‘neo-classical’ composers to write…
Lebrecht Weekly – Tchaikovsky: 6th symphony, Romeo & Juliet overture (Decca)
For a troubled London teenager in the 1960s there were three available sources of relief. One was illegal, one was immoral and the third was…
Lebrecht Weekly – Dmitri Shostakovich: piano trios and viola sonata (Decca)
The three works on this album encompass an entire composing life. The first piano trio was written by a 17 year-old for his girlfriend in…
Review: Dutoit/Montréal 1980-2000 (Decca)
Much has been said about Charles Dutoit and the Montreal Symphony Orchestra. The beginnings, the consecration, and the abrupt end of a relationship that lasted…
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…
