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

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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In troubled times for Russia, this album hints at the future of the country’s music

Lebrecht's Album of the Week

A new project to restore Beethoven’s incomplete symphony borders on pathological necromancy

On Music

Three sonatas by Brahms? The clarinet adaptation, to no surprise, doesn’t work

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Weinberg is an absolute master of intimated emotion

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The Czechs always have talent to spare on the bench

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Orchestras should be ashamed of their aversion to the composer

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2021 has yielded more memorable albums than you can count on the fingers of two hands

Lebrecht's Album of the Week