Author Erik Levi
Erik Levi

Erik Levi

Recent articles by Erik Levi
Edge of the Storm - Telegraph Quartet

Review: Edge of the Storm (Telegraph Quartet)

Erik Levi is gripped by the Telegraph Quartet’s album uniting three 20th-century masterpieces from Bacewicz, Britten and Weinberg
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Shostakovich Piano Trios Piano Quintet Julia Fischer

Review: Shostakovich – Piano Trios; Piano Quintet

Erik Levi voyages through Shostakovich’s kaleidoscopic chamber works in the company of violinist Julia Fischer and friends
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Shostakovich - String Quartets Nos 2, 7 & 10 (BIS)

Review: Shostakovich – String Quartets Nos 2, 7 & 10 (Jerusalems)

In his review, Erik Levi goes on a real rollercoaster of musical emotions thanks to the Jerusalem Quartet’s winning survey of three of Shostakovich’s mighty quartets
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Franz Schmidt

Franz Schmidt: the brilliant composer cancelled for pleasing the Nazis

A cataclysmic decision in his final year led to this masterful late-Romantic symphonist being cast out into the cold, explains Erik Levi
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Shostakovich champion: Mstislav Rostropovich, dedicatee of the Second Cello Concerto, gave its first performances in 1966 © Getty

'The rebellion of a very ill man against a very sick society': why critics shunned the Shostakovich Second Cello Concerto

British critics were slow to appreciate the qualities of Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich's Second Cello Concerto, as Erik Levi explains
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Exile - Patricia Kopatchinskaja et al (Alpha Classics)

Review: Exile (Patricia Kopatchinskaja et al)

In his review, Erik Levi enjoys a brilliant melting pot of discoverable works by exiled composers from Patricia Kopatchinskaja and friends’ eloquent performances of lesser-known works
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Block - Chamber Works (ARC Ensemble)

Review: Block: Chamber Works (ARC Ensemble)

In his review, Erik Levi enjoys discovering the life and music of exiled Austrian composer Frederick Block in this superb ARC Ensemble album
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Fauré & Schoenberg - Frankfurt Radio Symphony (Alpha Classics)

Fauré • Schoenberg: Pelleas und Melisande

In his review, Erik Levi believes Paavo Järvi and the Frankfurt Symphony to be right at home in Schoenberg’s epic Pelleas und Melisande
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Hindemith Schnittke (ECM)

Hindemith • Schnittke: Piano Concerto etc

Prokofiev's Symphony No. 6 (Cleveland Orchestra)

Bartók • Prokofiev: Symphony No. 6 etc

Italian composer Ferruccio Busoni at the piano

Ferruccio Busoni: the underrated Italian composer who 'breathed the air of other planets'

Although the piano virtuoso’s roots lay firmly in the Romantic era, Busoni’s instinct for pushing musical boundaries won him the respect of Schoenberg and Webern, says Erik Levi
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Scene from Apollo ballet by Stravinsky

Stravinsky was an incredible ballet composer. We've ranked the Stravinsky ballets you need to hear

Over four decades, Stravinsky revolutionised the world of ballet. He elevated the artform, taking its music in drastic new directions and drawing on influences from the past to create a unique series of works
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Schoenberg: Expressionist Music (Review)

Composer George Enescu

George Enescu: multi-faceted composer, Romanian national hero

Meet George Enescu, labelled by one famous performer ‘the greatest musical phenomenon since Mozart'
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The Golden Age of Hollywood

Debussy • Stravinsky: Petrushka etc

Songs of Fate

The Passenger

Schmidt symphonies Berman review

Schmidt: Symphonies Nos 1-4 etc

Reger Senfter Clarinet Quintets review CAvi-music

Reger • Senfter: Clarinet Quintets

Fathers & Daughters

Müller-Hartmann: String Quartet No. 2 etc

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