From the Lebrecht Album of the Week:
I am generally resistant to albums that impose an external theme on unrelated pieces of music from different places and times. In this case, it is eastern Europe, 1814 to 2024….
This album comes into its own with the present Ukraine war…
Read on here.
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This week’s Apple Classical hit-list, exclusive to slippedisc.com: 1 Shostakovich: Piano Concertos… Yuja Wang, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Andris Nelsons 2 Rimsky-Korsakov / Rachmaninoff/Dvorak Wiener Philharmoniker, Lorenzo Viotti 3 Field: Complete Nocturnes Alice Sara Ott 4 […]
The death has been announced of the Swiss soprano Edith Mathis, one of the most recorded artists of her time. She died on Sunday, two days short of her 86th birthday. Born in Lucerne, she […]
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