Zeffirelli’s Juliet dies, 73
The British actor and singer Olivia Hussey – co-star of Franco Zeffirelli’s 1968 film of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet – died this weekend, her family have announced. View this post on Instagram A […]
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‘I will not say anything against the Jewish people’
In the last of the present Lebrecht Interviews on BBC Radio 3, I asked Itzhak Perlman for his thoughts on the present situation in Israel, where he was born and grew up. Itzhak gave a […]
Grammy-winning Tonmeister, RIP
We have received late notification of the death in November of the sound engineer Michael Brammann, winner of two Grammy awards though not – as so often happens – necessarily for his best work, Michael, […]
‘Beethoven grabs you by the collar; Schubert leads you by the hand’
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 […]
Le Grand Mystère: French and English Noëls
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 […]
Ruth Leon recommends…. Ben Platt & Cynthia Arrivo – Get Happy/Happy Days are Here Again
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 […]
A new collaboration: Operabase & DG
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 […]
Triple Bach: Does it get any better?
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 […]
Ruth Leon recommends…. Cymbeline – Stratford Festival
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 […]
It’s a first for Itzhak Perlman
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 […]
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