If You Think Classical Music is Dead, You're Dead Wrong!
LEBRECHT LISTENS | Renée Fleming Is A Voice of Nature
By Norman Lebrecht on September 24, 2021
Renée Fleming sings out full and flamboyant in this set of nature-themed songs that came together during her daily walks in the COVID lockdown.
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LEBRECHT LISTENS | Compelling 100 Years Of Piazzolla
By Norman Lebrecht on September 17, 2021
Astor Piazzolla's work elevates tango from the dance floor to the art museum.
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LEBRECHT LISTENS | Solem Quartet: Frontrunners For Best New Talent 2021
By Norman Lebrecht on September 10, 2021
A fresh idea from Solem Quartet, with little to fault in the playing and much to anticipate in this group’s emergence.
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LEBRECHT LISTENS | Paderewski & Stojowski: Convincing Obscurities
By Norman Lebrecht on September 3, 2021
This pairing of violin-piano sonatas by the two Poles comes close, at times, to revelation.
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LEBRECHT LISTENS | Nikolai Kapustin: Writing Against His Own Times
By Norman Lebrecht on August 27, 2021
Listening to Nikolai Kapustin in 2021 is an act of nostalgia, a gesture of defiance to the dictates of fashion.
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LEBRECHT LISTENS | Erno von Dohnányi: Music That Fusses More Than It Fizzes
By Norman Lebrecht on August 20, 2021
Dohnanyi's music fusses more than it fizzes, brilliantly played by the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra under Robert Paternostro.
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LEBRECHT LISTENS | Alice Sara Ott's Chopin Is A Dazzling Experiment That Almost Works
By Norman Lebrecht on August 13, 2021
Alice Sara Ott gives the preludes of Frederic Chopin a contemporary twist by interleaving them with some of her favourite modern composers.
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LEBRECHT LISTENS | Music In The Age Of COVID Amnesia
By Norman Lebrecht on August 6, 2021
The Janacek Philharmonic Orchestra and soloist Simon Trpceski deliver the visceral satisfaction of a live performance in this recording of Shostakovich.
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LEBRECHT LISTENS | Furtwängler’s Ticket To Ride
By Norman Lebrecht on July 30, 2021
The fine musicians of Reutlingen do their level best to get us through Wilhelm Furtwängler's 1st symphony.
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LEBRECHT LISTENS | A Mixed Start For Decca’s New Violin Poster Boy Randall Goosby
By Norman Lebrecht on July 23, 2021
Randall Goosby, 25, Decca’s new poster-boy violinist offers a cocktail platter of musical bites, with technique as clean as a scalpel and a real sense of pleasure in how he plays.
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