A five-star song cycle that was borne in silence for 20 years
Album Of The WeekFrom the Lebrecht Album of the Week:
I know it’s barely April, but I’ve shortlisted this album as one of my records of the year, and don’t expect it to get easily displaced.
The project came about the wrong way round. Instead of a singer approaching a label with a cycle he or she wants to record, in this case the French pianist Hélène Grimaud carried the cycle in her heart for 20 years, waiting for the right vocalist….
Read on here.
And here.
In The Critic here.
Sounds very interesting, thank you!