CD Review: Solem Quartet – The Four Quarters (Orchid)
Thomas Adès: The Four Quarters (works for string quartet by Adès and others) Solem Quartet − The Four Quarters (Orchid) ★★★★★ Emerging from the depths of…
Browsing: Orchid
Lebrecht’s Album of the Week: Transatlantic (Orchid)
Winston Churchill’s famous witticism that Britain and America are divided by a common language is equally true of their musical output. In late-romantic repertoire, the…
Lebrecht’s Albums of the Week: Singing in the Dead of Night / Love and Death
You’ll often hear me telling people a couple of generations down the line that they should listen to new music of our time rather than…
Lebrecht Weekly – Richard Strauss: Through Life and Love (Orchid)
Of the two UK finalists in BBC Cardiff Singer of the World last weekend, many felt the English soprano Louise Alder stood a better chance…
