Lebrecht Weekly | Erich Wolfgang Korngold: String quartets 1-3 (Naxos)
If his violin concerto led you to expect lovely tunes and mushy strings, you may be disappointed with the three quartets, written a decade apart…
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Ben-Haim, Bloch, Korngold: cello concertos (CPO)
Jewish composers write violin concertos first, piano second. All other instruments are also-rans. Credit, then to Raphael Wallfisch for dusting off cello concertos by three…
The Yiddish Cabaret (Harmonia Mundi)
Journalists sometimes write reckless headlines, knowing they will be fish-food in a couple of days. Artists cannot afford that luxury with album titles. The cover…
The Problem of Modern Music
“Only madmen invent entirely new languages,” wrote the Viennese-born British critic Hans Keller in a 1961 essay for The Musical Times bearing the same title…
