Articles By Norman Lebrecht
May 2013
This year could mark the coming of age of Poland as a musical nation. What took so long?
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April 2013
The Royal Opera House’s chief executive is returning to the BBC after a dozen successful years
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March 2013
Steeped in the grand tradition, Charles Rosen was the archetypal philosopher-pianist
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January/February 2013
The mythologizing about Wolfgang Amadeus is incessant. As a result, the music is lost
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January/February 2013
The global impact of World War I changed the arts forever. Its effects are still felt a century later
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December 2012
A new group of gifted young conductors offers the prospect of genuine renewal in classical music
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November 2012
Benjamin Britten's gifts to British music, both as practitioner and patron, far outweigh his faults
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October 2012
Classical music must follow the example of an art form that has survived by extending its range
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September 2012
As long as his family still runs the Wagner festival, it will remain tainted by its links with the Nazis
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July/August 2012
The wireless is enjoying an overdue renaissance as the web is able to carry concerts worldwide
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June 2012
The common explanation for Schoenberg’s abrupt atonal turn is another of music’s great fairytales
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May 2012
The resurrection of the LP pleases romantics but it risks dividing the classical music community
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April 2012
Now Sakari Oramo is cheif conductor at the BBC Symphony Orchestra, many fear a Scandinavian supremacy in British music.
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April 2012
The young conductor of the Simón Bolívar orchestra is brilliantly reinvigorating Mahler
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March 2012
The greatest German lieder singer may have retired from the stage but his fire is not extinguished
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January/February 2012
Was Jean Sibelius's newly discovered Eighth Symphony destroyed in one of the composer's notorious drunken rages?
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January/February 2012
Subsidy cuts give classical music the chance to thrive without government interference
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December 2011
The singer Barbara is little known outside France. Yet her songs yield endless riches
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November 2011
The age of megalomaniac conductors seems to be over—and about time too
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October 2011
The new Finlandia Hall in Helsinki has been transformed by a Japanese mystic with an ear for acoustics
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July/August 2011
Around the world, symphony orchestras are threatened as public subsidies dry up. But great cities need them more than ever
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June 2011
The recently deceased music-loving Sony boss Norio Ohga cared more about the art than the money
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May 2011
Gustav Mahler’s very public demise marked the beginning of a new age of fascination with the private lives of the famous
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April 2011
Fashion should not forgive outbursts of fascism at Dior
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December 2010
The Arts Council started with a tiny budget and a mandate to lift the postwar gloom. Now this meddlesome quango has lost its way and its chair, Liz Forgan, must go
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About Norman Lebrecht
Norman Lebrecht is an author and broadcaster. His latest book is Why Mahler? (Faber).
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