Lebrecht Weekly 17 February 20233.5 0 Lebrecht Weekly | Jean Sibelius/Arne Nordheim; The Tempest (Naxos/LAWO) Jean Sibelius: *** Arne Nordheim: **** By no means one of Shakespeare’s more popular plays, the Tempest has been adapted into no fewer than 45…
Orchestral 3 September 2019 0 Fall Highlights: Orchestras Orchestre symphonique de Montréal Kent Nagano opens his last season as music director of the OSM on Sept. 17 and 18 with tough stuff: Shostakovich’s…
Lebrecht Weekly 14 June 20193.0 0 Mendelssohn in Birmingham, vol. 5 (Chandos) This really useful series has reached a clutch of shorter pieces, all of them offering fresh insights into the life and mind of the travelling…
Lebrecht Weekly 14 September 20183.0 0 Saint-Saens: Piano concertos (Chandos/Erato) Camille Saint-Saens was the first Frenchman to compose piano concertos. Of the five that he wrote between 1858 and 1886, only the second gets much…