CD Review: Chopin: Piano Concerto No. 2 – Scherzi (Deutsche Grammophon)
Chopin: Piano Concerto No. 2 Op. 21; Scherzos (4); Etude Op. 10 No. 12 (“Revolutionary”); Impromptu No. 1 in A flat major Op. 29; Nocturne…
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Emily D’Angelo signs with Deutsche Grammophon
Deutsche Grammophon is pleased to announce the signing of an exclusive agreement with the 26-year-old Italian-Canadian mezzo-soprano Emily D’Angelo, an artist already in high demand at…
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…
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…
