From the Lebrecht Album of the Yr:
No-one knew what to anticipate of 2022. In January, masked or locked down, we gazed into crystal balls of mortality. The chamber music of Harrison Birtwistle caught my ear with shock and delight, just for the composer to depart us quickly after. Fred Rzewski, one other latest fatality, obtained one of the best efficiency ever of ‘The Folks United Will By no means Be Defeated’. The Ukrainian composer Valentin Silvestrov escaped his homeland and enriched us with a brand new symphony. Life hung by a thread….
In April, I accoladed a Pieter Wispelwey performances of two cello concertos by Mieczyslaw Weinberg on the Evil Penguin as ‘presumably one of the best Weinberg ever heard on file’. Weeks later, it had a detailed rival …
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En francais ici.
