The twilight of genius | Norman Lebrecht
There is a tension within this recording that I have struggled to resolve. The Cuarteto…
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A better America | Norman Lebrecht
★★★★ At the end of a week of abusive American power, the last thing I wanted to hear was…
Schubert à la mould | Norman Lebrecht
★/★★★★★ Some people love cheese, others turn green at the sniff of it. We are talking here…
Small chips off an old block | Norman Lebrecht
★★★ Igor Stravinsky was too much of an egotist to be a good parent. He was a brute to his…
Bird man of Finland | Norman Lebrecht
★★★★/★★ Cold enough for you? Pull on another layer and listen to the Arctic concerto by a…
Album of the Year | Norman Lebrecht
It has been a year of Goldberg Variations — Yunchan Lim, the end of Vikingur Olafsson’s…
Emotional restraint | Norman Lebrecht
★★★★ One of the most vivid portraits of Gustav Mahler was written by a fellow-Czech who,…
The year the mob called the tune | Norman Lebrecht
This article is taken from the December-January 2026 issue of The Critic. To get the full…
A cornucopia of surprises | Norman Lebrecht
★★★★★ In the days when records had two sides and plane tickets were paper booklets, the…
Almost too poignant to bear | Norman Lebrecht
★★★★☆ Schubert, in the final year of his short life, feared he was dying and hoped he was…
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