Piazzolla Cien Anos (Century Records)
One of the sadder casualties of the Covid shutdown has been the centenary plans for Astor Piazzolla (1921-1992), the Argentine composer whose music exquisitely captures…
Browsing: Nadia Boulanger
Lebrecht’s Album of the Week: Dear Mademoiselle (Alpha)
An unprepossessing Parisian teacher of piano and solfège received an unexpected career boost when the victorious General Pershing opened a French music school for Americans at…
Lebrecht Weekly – Nadia Boulanger: Works (Delos/SWR Music)
In half a century of listening to records, I cannot recall ever hearing music by the noted French pedagogue Nadia Boulanger. Revered by a stream…
