Listening to the Rattle family folksongs
Album Of The WeekFrom the Lebrecht Album of the Week:
Most record reviewers listen to a release no more than one and a half times before making up their minds. Myself, I like to take a little longer. When doubt lingers or expectation is unfulfilled, I’ll return to the record a week later for relistening. It does not always resolve my qualms, and my second impression can often be less positive than the first. But, every now and then, I’m glad I returned.
Nothing seemed to add up on my first encounter with Magdalena Kožená’s trawl through four sets of folk songs…
Read on here.
And here.
In The Critic here.
En francais ici.
In Spanish here.
In Czech here.
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