Lebrecht Weekly | Rachmaninov: Sonata #1, Moments musicaux (Hyperion)
Why, people have been asking for about 120 years, is Rachmaninov so popular? The music is morbid to miserable, the melodies are unhummable and mere…
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The Lebrecht Weekly: György Ligeti – The 18 Etudes (Hyperion)
Among composers of the post-War avant-garde, Ligeti is now the most performed. You can go from one end of the year to the other without…
Lebrecht’s Album of the Week: Ralph Vaughan Williams’ 5th symphony and Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress (Hyperion)
At the midpoint of the Second World War, our parents looked to two composers for symphonies of hope and vision. Such was the excitement attending the 7th…
Pfitzner/Braunfels: piano concertos (Hyperion)
The anniversary year of Hans Pfitzner (1869-1949) is marked by the re-emergence of a piano concerto that he wrote at the height of his fame.…
Lebrecht Weekly – Morton Feldman: For Bunita Marcus (Hyperion)
The US composer Bunita Marcus worked for seven years with Morton Feldman and subsequently accused him, after his death, of sexual abuse. Feldman wrote this…
