If You Think Classical Music is Dead, You're Dead Wrong!
LEBRECHT LISTENS | Reviving Europe’s Forgotten Female Composer
By Norman Lebrecht on June 11, 2021
Vítězslava Kaprálová was a talent of rare eloquence and self-possession, too good to remain lost in the mists of time.
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LEBRECHT LISTENS | This COVID-Year Album Is Demonstrably Irresistible
By Norman Lebrecht on June 4, 2021
This COVID-year album by the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic and their departing conductor Vasily Petrenko is demonstrably irresistible.
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LEBRECHT LISTENS | Peteris Vasks: There Is Always Hope Somewhere On A Baltic Shore
By Norman Lebrecht on May 28, 2021
Latvia’s answer to Estonia’s Arvo Pärt, Vasks writes long, slow, contemplative works with a strong feeling for lakes, forests and landscape.
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LEBRECHT LISTENS | Capturing The Spirit Of Our Times, But Is Classical Music Listening?
By Norman Lebrecht on May 21, 2021
Will Liverman, a baritone much seen at the Met, has chosen songs by Black composers of two or three generations, songs that undermine the whiter-than-white settings of bygone years.
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LEBRECHT LISTENS | A Five Star Argument For Prokofiev Over Stravinsky
By Norman Lebrecht on May 14, 2021
Gloriously shaped by Vasily Petrenko and magnificently played by the Oslo Philharmonic, awarding the fifth star for this release was an easy decision.
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LEBRECHT LISTENS | Beethoven That Sings Like A Pentecostal Nightingale
By Norman Lebrecht on May 7, 2021
The Aris play Beethoven with sweeping flair and something close to insouciance on this recent recording.
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Lebrecht Listens | Mining The Fruits Of Michael Mann’s Musical Career
By Norman Lebrecht on April 30, 2021
Mann’s playing is subliminally evocative of a decade when Europe’s finest settled beside the Pacific in a new recording showcasing his life's work.
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LEBRECHT LISTENS | We Expect Oracles From Composers In Ominous Times
By Norman Lebrecht on April 23, 2021
We expect oracles from composers in ominous times, but it is the interpreters Benjamin Baker and Daniel Lebhardt, who bring out the terrors and anxieties that rumble beneath these works.
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LEBRECHT LISTENS | Vaughan Williams: Let The Music Say It All
By Norman Lebrecht on April 16, 2021
The London Symphony Orchestra and its new chief conductor Antonio Pappano let the music say it all on this new recording of Vaughan Williams symphonies.
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LEBRECHT LISTENS | Where Has Hindemith Gone?
By Norman Lebrecht on April 9, 2021
It’s a bit of a mystery why Hindemith has vanished so completely, with chamber music so extremely well-made, intelligent, and civilized.
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