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…
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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…
Lebrecht Weekly – The alternative record of the year
Most critics pick their album of the year from the ones they reviewed over the past 52 weeks. I’ve decided to choose from the ones…
Lebrecht Weekly – J S Bach: The French Suites (DG)
What a difference a label can make. All his adult life, ever since he won the 1972 Leeds Piano Competition, Murray Perahia has recorded exclusively…
