The Lebrecht Weekly: Hilary Hahn – Paris (Deutsche Grammophon)
When you hear the term ‘multiple issues’ in 2021 it usually signifies that Covid is not the only cause of death. This album has multiple…
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The Lebrecht Weekly: Im Abendrot (DG)
A cultured Russian friend was telling me the other day she cannot bear to listen to Lieder – ‘all that shrieking and, worse, in German’.…
Lebrecht’s Album of the Week: Daniil Trifonov – Silver Age (DG)
The second piano by Sergei Prokofiev was the least performed of the five until Evgeny Kissin came along a decade ago and showed it was…
Lebrecht’s Album of the Week: Britten – Sinfonia da Requiem (DG)
Like Beethoven’s Mass in C major which is overshadowed by the mighty Missa Solemnis, Benjamin Britten’s Sinfonia da Requiem is sometimes mistaken for the War…
Lebrecht’s Album of the Week: John Williams in Vienna (DG)
Here’s a first – a record that resists categorisation. To give it one star would be an insult, two stars a gross over-estimation. No stars…
Lebrecht’s Album of the Week: Rachmaninov – Preludes, Etudes (Deutsche Grammophon)
The arrival of an altogether astonishing album has made me break my solemn (and unrealistic) pledge to review only neglected composers during the Covid pandemic.…
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Royal rebel Amid the avalanche of COVID-19-related cancellations, a few concert presenters persist in believing that the show can, and should, go on. The Royal…
CD Review – Nadine Sierra (Deutsche Grammophon)
We do this so you don’t have to. The flow of Christmas albums has slimmed in recent years but there is still a belief in…
Shostakovich: Symphonies 4 and 11 (Deutsche Grammophon)
Two problematic symphonies by a tortured composer are despatched by the Boston Symphony and its Latvian conductor with near-nonchalance. The 4th, withheld by the composer…
Montreal Renew Financial Funding to the OSM
CANADA The mayor of Montreal Denis Coderre engage to give 100 000$ per year to the OSM. « Through its international stature, the OSM is a…
