Here it comes….. the 2022 album of the year
Album Of The WeekFrom the Lebrecht Album of the Year:
No-one knew what to expect 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 surprise and delight, only for the composer to leave us soon after. Fred Rzewski, another recent fatality, received the best performance ever of ‘The People United Will Never Be Defeated’. The Ukrainian composer Valentin Silvestrov escaped his homeland and enriched us with a 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 ‘possibly the best Weinberg ever heard on record’. Weeks later, it had a close rival …
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