If You Think Classical Music is Dead, You're Dead Wrong!
LEBRECHT LISTENS | Daniil Trifonov Never Lets Us Down
By Norman Lebrecht on October 13, 2017
The 2011 Tchaikovsky winner has lost none of his capacity to surprise.
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LEBRECHT LISTENS | Steven Osborne's Etudes-Tableaux Shows He's Is Our Kind Of Pianist
By Norman Lebrecht on July 13, 2018
Steven Osborne's latest Rachmaninov: Etudes-tableaux album puts the pathological scrutiny back into these amazing sets of piano sketches.
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LEBRECHT LISTENS | Incoming TSO Chief Gives Us Proof That Unbelievers Write The Best Religious Music
By Norman Lebrecht on April 19, 2019
Gustavo Gimeno raises a keeps a tight grip on this Luxembourg performance with the local orchestra, the Vienna Singakademie and three Italians out of four soloists.
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LEBRECHT LISTENS | Arnold Schoenberg: Gurre-Lieder (Chandos)
By Norman Lebrecht on October 7, 2016
Schoenberg's Gurre-Lieder is a hulking work requiring a large chorus, six soloists, and a full orchestra. Is this new Chandos release up to the task? Norman Lebrecht listens.
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LEBRECHT LISTENS | New Album Resurrects Lost Works By A Criminally Overlooked Female Composer
By Norman Lebrecht on March 8, 2019
In honour of International Women’s Day, we take a look at a new album of never before recorded works by Welsh composer, Grace Williams.
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LEBRECHT LISTENS | Everywhere You Look Is Rachmaninov, Rachmaninov, Rachmaninov
By Norman Lebrecht on April 7, 2017
Khatia Buniatishvili and Paavo Järvi team up for a brilliant contemporary take on Rachmaninov's Piano Concertos 1 and 2, yet after three hearings, it's curiously unmemorable.
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LEBRECHT LISTENS | A New Bar For An Overlooked Beethoven
By Norman Lebrecht on June 28, 2019
Although Beethoven's Christ on the Mount of Olives was once fairly popular, the work has not been much recorded — hardly at all, in fact, until now.
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LEBRECHT LISTENS | Pocket Size Mozart Works Better Than You'd Think
By Norman Lebrecht on July 19, 2019
Pianist David Owen Norris crafts an intriguing recreation of how Mozart's large-scale orchestral works might have been encountered in Georgian Britain.
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LEBRECHT LISTENS | Daniel Lozakovich's Got It, Plain And Simple
By Norman Lebrecht on June 15, 2018
He knows what he has to say and he says it entirely in his own way. Meet violinist Daniel Lozakovich.
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LEBRECHT LISTENS | The Bamberg Symphony Returns To Bedrock Repertoire
By Norman Lebrecht on July 12, 2019
The Bamberg Symphony returns to its best with a new album of Brahms and Dvořák.
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