From the Lebrecht Album of the Week:
German composers don’t know how to have fun. Think no further than Mozart’s Musical Joke, or Beethoven’s fat-shaming of the violinist Schuppanzigh. Not funny at all. Not to mention Schumann and Brahms, or the feeble anti-critic jokes made by Wagner, Mahler and Richard Strauss.
So it was in a wary frame of mind that I approached a frisky album…
Read on here.
And here.
En francais ici.
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