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. He tweets at @NLebrecht

John Wilson and the Sinfonia of London reinterpret Metamorphosen chillingly as elegy

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The otherworldly and the down-to-earth

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The British composer — still writing at 87 years of age — is an acquired taste

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Music and ethnicity are both more complex than nationalism allows

Artillery Row

A Baedeker tour of Europe’s miseries, amidst the outrage in Ukraine

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This is singing as mildly polemical conversation, from her to us

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A performance space without walls or limits

On Music

One would never imagine Stalinist oppression was raging all around her

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Rediscovering the patriarch of Russian piano composition

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Why are so many in the dark about Germany’s leading musical light?

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