List of 2022 JUNO Award Winners in Classical Music and Jazz
TORONTO, May 14, 2022 /CNW/ – For the first time in three years, The Canadian Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (CARAS) honoured artists and…
Browsing: Naxos
The Lebrecht Weekly: Heitor Villa-Lobos – Violin sonatas (Naxos)
Covid has narrowed our outlook so severely that we are hardly aware of the world abroad. Brazil has suffered 19 million cases with more than…
The Lebrecht Weekly: Vítězslava Kaprálová – Waving Farewell (Naxos)
The Czech composer Vitezlava Kapralova died in the early weeks of the German occupation of France, at the age of 25. Two months before, she had…
The Lebrecht Weekly: Hungarian Serenade (Naxos)
Half a century after Bartok and Kodaly toured the Hungarian plains with an early Edison phonograph in search of authentic Magyar music, students of the…
Lebrecht’s Album of the Week: Leo Weiner – Divertimentos (Naxos)
Georg Solti used to say that Leo Weiner (1885-1960) was his best teacher in Budapest. Since his other professors at the Franz Liszt Academy included…
Lebrecht’s Album of the Week: Valentin Silvestrov – 7th symphony (Naxos)
I often wonder when listening to Silvestrov’s music why he is not one of the most performed living composers. His music is at once mentally…
Streaming and Classical music: Reconciliation at Last
Already prophesied at the end of the last century, the decline of physical media and the concomitant rise of digital broadcasting platforms have brought about…
Grace Williams: Chamber music (Naxos)
If you haven’t heard of Grace Williams, it’s not entirely down to vicious male suppression. The Welsh composer (1906-1977) studied in London with Ralph Vaughan…
Liszt: Etudes d’execution transcendente (Naxos)
If you live in the age of Heifetz, a great violinist once told me, you need to find a different angle. Knowing that there is…
Gorecki: String quartets (Naxos)
Ever wonder what Henryk Mikolaj Górecki did before he hit the jackpot with that million-selling third symphony? The sage of Katowice never stuck to any…
