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

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

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

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

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

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Feinberg / Winterberg: The lost works (Melism)

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Norman Lebrecht is left wanting more Dutilleux

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Norman Lebrecht breaks a rule in his review of The Mermaid

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Norman Lebrecht reviews Shostakovich: Violin concertos 1&2, performed by Alina Ibragimova and the State Symphony Orchestra of Russia

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Tragedy struck Gustav Mahler, the archetypal summer composer, in 1907

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Channel 4’s new series set in a Paris orchestra hits multiple wrong notes

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