Lebrecht Weekly – Kathleen Ferrier Remembered (Somm)
When the English contralto Norma Procter died a few weeks ago at the age of 89, readers remembered seeing Kathleen Ferrier in her audience at…
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Lebrecht Weekly – Impromptu (Onyx)
The trouble with keeping records is that library science has yet to devise a method of telling you where any piece of music will be…
Lebrecht Weekly – Mahler: Third symphony (Channel Classics)
There is no wholly recommendable performance on record of Mahler’s third symphony. The earliest, by F. Charles Adler in 1952, is faultlessly idiomatic, as is…
Lebrecht Weekly – Alexander Lokshin: Clarinet quintet & c. (Melodiya)
In the dying years of the Soviet Union I became aware of dozens of symphonists who survived on the fringes of musical society, tolerated by…
Lebrecht Weekly – Robert Schumann: Davidsbündlertänze (Hyperion)
Do not be put off by the cover, which shows two Victorians of different gender having a pre-Raphaelite snog. What they look like post-Raphael is…
Lebrecht Weekly – Karol Szymanowski; Stabat Mater, 3rd Symphony (Warner)
Never a big Easter bunny, I generally receive the springtime festival releases with the same excitement as I’d feel about a Placido Domingo Christmas record.…
Lebrecht Weekly – Rachmaninov: Piano concertos 2 and 3 (Sony Classical)
It’s raining Rachmaninov concertos and I’m not sure the roof can take any more. The past couple of weeks have brought Vanessa Benelli Mosell on…
Lebrecht Weekly – Yo-Yo Ma, Chris Thile and Edgar Meyer: Bach trios (Nonesuch)
Hard to know whether to give this confection one star or five. The dominant voice is the mandolin of Chris Thile, an instrument probably unknown…
Lebrecht Weekly – Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde (Sony)
This is one of those treasurable major-label releases, made with the best of intentions, in which everything turns out wrong. Mahler wrote The Song of…
Lebrecht Weekly – Hanns Eisler: Hangmen Also Die! (Capriccio)
In the Hollywood walk of composing fame, Hanns Eisler is the forgotten man. Erich Korngold was the founding father, Waxman and Newman the busy bees,…
