From the Lebrecht Album of the Week: There’s more content in this compilation than a weary reviewer has a right to expect. Coming off the back of a pointless set of Shostakovich symphonies, this chunky […]
Last night’s late-breaking news that Katharina Wagner had been renewed for five more years as artistic director of the Bayreuth allowed millions of Germans to sleep soundly in their beds. Katharina, 45, is the great-grandchild […]
From the Lebrecht Album of the Week: The sound of Berlin in the Weimar years is defined by Kurt Weill. More than any other composer, his music for the Bertolt Brecht shows conjured the jittery, […]