Lebrecht Weekly – Ralph Vaughan Williams: Symphonies 2 and 8 (Onyx)
Unless you live in England – and, in most of the country, even if you do – you will have few opportunities to hear live…
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Lebrecht Weekly – Ralph Vaughan Williams: Symphonies 2 and 8 (Onyx)
Unless you live in England – and, in most of the country, even if you do – you will have few opportunities to hear live…
Lebrecht Weekly – Joseph Haydn: Violin concertos (Panclassics)
It must be a seasonal thing. When fresh mushrooms simmer and asparagus gently steams, it starts raining …Haydn. Sure enough, four Haydn releases have landed…
Lebrecht Weekly – Beethoven: Symphonies 4 and 5 (Sony)
In May 2015, visibly frail, the august Nikolaus Harnoncourt stood before his Concentus Musicus Wien and directed two Beethoven symphonies in a reading that followed…
Lebrecht Weekly – Mahler: 3rd Symphony (DSO Live)
What can New York expect of its next music director? Jaap van Zweeden’s recordings can be counted on your fingers and most are – like…
Lebrecht Weekly – Deutsche Grammophon: The Mono Era, 1948-57 (DG)
Slower even than one-horse EMI, Deutsche Grammophon was the last label of consequence to adopt stereo recording in the late 1950s. Its circumspection is, in…
Lebrecht Weekly – Argerich and Barenboim: Live from Buenos Aires (DG)
The question is, what took them so long? Martha Argerich and Daniel Barenboim, born a year apart in Buenos Aires to Jewish mothers of Russian…
Lebrecht Weekly – NDR Symphony Orchestra/Krzysztof Urbanski (Alpha)
Most composer reputations subside in the generation after their death. It’s as if posterity calls time out while deciding its final judgement. Witold Lutoslawski is…
Lebrecht Weekly – Ludmila Berlinskaya: Pasternak And Scriabin (Melodiya)
You knew that the author of Doctor Zhivago was a composer, right? You didn’t. Well sit back; this might take a while. One of the…
Lebrecht Weekly – FolksLied: Beethoven, Britten, Haydn (BR Klassik)
Viennese masters, always short of cash, picked up commissions from rich British tourists for composing drawing-room settings of national heritage. Haydn and Beethoven filled their…
