The pianist Jonathan Biss, in a New York Times essay, attempts to delineate the impact on a performer of playing the late works of the two great Vienna contemporaries. He does so in an attempt […]
Recorded on the Aix-en-Provence based label Rocamadour, this is an eclectic disc divided Ito four parts: “Réjooussez-vous”; “Un Enfant nous et né”; :Dans une Nuit silencieuse”‘; “Soyez Joyeux”. The label is new to me, but […]
Ben Platt & Cynthia Arrivo Before we say an un-fond farewell to 2024 we need something uplifting to counter the endless stream of bad news confronting us day by day. Here it is – two […]
Deutsche Grammophon and Operabase Collaborate on Classical Music Streaming with Integration of CueTV into STAGE+ Thursday 12 December 2024, Berlin, Germany | Copenhagen, Denmark Deutsche Grammophon’s world-class classical music streaming service STAGE+, and CueTV, a premier provider […]
Pablo Casals conducts a gloriously old-fashioned 1971 performance of J. S. Bach’s concerto for three keyboards and orchestra, staged at the United Nations building in New York. The soloists are Mieczyslaw Horszowski, Eugene Istomin and […]
Cymbeline Click here to rent or subscribe Cymbeline’s plot is too complicated to tell in a few words which doesn’t really matter because it makes a sort of sense when you watch it. Shakespeare has […]
We’ve been given to understand that tonight’s Lebrecht Interview with the great violinist is the first programme-length conversation he has ever agreed to. We talk about many things – his boyhood bout of polio, the […]
Message received: January 24th marks the 50th anniversary of the bestselling solo piano album of all time: The Köln Concert, the iconic 1975 performance by Keith Jarrett at Köln Opera House. Famously, this late night […]
The soprano Lesley Garrett, 70 in April, has been contemplating retirement on the How To Be 60 podcast: ‘My husband says I’m only at my happiest when I’m singing. He says he worries about my […]
From the last Lebrecht Album of the Week for 2024: What’s the point in having a centenary if it doesn’t restore a reputation? A hundred years have passed since the German-Italian Busoni died in Berlin […]
