Norman Lebrecht

Norman Lebrecht is a British commentator on music and cultural affairs, a novelist, and the author of the classical music blog Slipped Disc. He was a columnist for The Daily Telegraph from 1994 to 2002, and assistant editor of the London Evening Standard from 2002 to 2009.

A marvellous blend of early Baroque and Mediterranean traditional songs

Lebrecht's Album of the Week

Silvestrov writes almost as if Mahler is speaking to us from beyond the grave

Artillery Row

Zero stars for the vacuous Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra

Lebrecht's Album of the Week

Where has originality and character gone in the art of Violin playing?

On Music

Babayan’s Rachmninov is remarkable is its absence of obvious virtuosity

Lebrecht's Album of the Week

If Norman Lebrecht goes a month without hearing Weinberg he feels the loss

Lebrecht's Album of the Week

The 1934 suite by Ralph Vaughan Williams demands a sympathy for the rolling contours of the English countryside

Lebrecht's Album of the Week

The Ballad of Mauthausen ranks among the most beautiful music ever written about the Nazi Holocaust

Lebrecht's Album of the Week

I can imagine Kapustin in the background, smiling at his piano, during this breath-taking revival

Artillery Row

What Rouse wrote was an intimate series of love letters to the orchestra

Artillery Row