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

A new recording of Mahler’s smallest symphony is “indispensable” to connoisseurs of his music

Lebrecht's Album of the Week

A prawn cocktail of exceptionally competent music to enjoy on Easter Sunday

Lebrecht's Album of the Week

A new release of Rachmaninov’s first piano sonata deserves more than five stars

Lebrecht's Album of the Week

The violinist Gidon Kremer stands brilliantly apart from the rest of the music world

On Music

If you want an entry point to Weinberg, this is it

Lebrecht's Album of the Week

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

Lebrecht's Album of the Week

The otherworldly and the down-to-earth

Lebrecht's Album of the Week

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

Lebrecht's Album of the Week

Music and ethnicity are both more complex than nationalism allows

Artillery Row

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

Lebrecht's Album of the Week