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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Feinberg / Winterberg: The lost works (Melism)

Norman Lebrecht is left wanting more Dutilleux

Norman Lebrecht breaks a rule in his review of The Mermaid