Lebrecht Weekly – Polish Violin Concertos (Naxos)
There used to be a truth, universally acknowledged across the record industry, that you could put out unfamiliar music with a famous artist or popular…
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Lebrecht Weekly – Felix Mendelssohn: Songs without words (BIS)
As a general rule, I would rather eat porridge that has been left to stand overnight than listen to music of the romantic era being…
Daily News Roundup: 1 July 2016
+ The marriage between text and music in contemporary opera is more important than ever, says William Littler, citing Fellow Travelers (Cincinnati Opera) and Les…
Lebrecht Weekly – Glazunov, Khachaturian: Violin Concertos (Avanti)
The archetype Russian violin concerto – Tchaikovsky’s – looms so large over the musical landscape that all others seem no more than sidebars. Two concertos…
Lebrecht Weekly – Lucas Debargue (Sony)
This is a great time for piano lovers, a terrible one for young pianists. The past four years have flung up the most phenomenal range…
Lebrecht Weekly – Dmitri Shostakovich: piano trios and viola sonata (Decca)
The three works on this album encompass an entire composing life. The first piano trio was written by a 17 year-old for his girlfriend in…
Lebrecht Weekly – Cameron Carpenter: All you need is Bach (Sony)
Before we go any further, let me declare once and for all that I am done with three stars. Everywhere else, critics award three stars…
Lebrecht Weekly – Feldman, Crumb: Piano pieces (Hyperion)
Every few months I take my ears out for a cleaning. This is not as easy as it sounds. Finding music that is original, unfamiliar,…
Lebrecht Weekly – Feldman, Crumb: Piano pieces (Hyperion)
Every few months I take my ears out for a cleaning. This is not as easy as it sounds. Finding music that is original, unfamiliar,…
Lebrecht Weekly – Anonymous: Six concertos (CPO)
The best fun I’ve had all week is trying to identify the composers of six 18th century concertos that have turned up in the vaults…
