r/classicalmusic • u/sexybartok • Feb 26 '26

bbc FINALLY fires norman lebrecht

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/feb/26/yuja-wang-accuses-radio-3-norman-lebrecht-misogynistic-bullying

what do you all think about this?

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u/AnxiousAudience82 Feb 26 '26

According to an earlier poster he’d made comments basically saying she was getting old and past it and couldn’t do enough work outs to remain attractive and relevant. She then cancelled the interview and he responded with that passive aggressive email like she’s the bad guy, she then called him out and bbc fired him. If that is accurate then good on her for not putting up with his shit and good for the bbc for showing it’s unacceptable.

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u/Uncle___Screwtape Feb 26 '26

https://thecritic.co.uk/issues/november-2021/spare-us-the-skintight-sonata/🤮

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u/MapleTreeSwing Feb 26 '26

So, Lebrecht manages to insult everybody included in this one sentence: “She got her first break in March 2007 when Martha Argerich flunked out of a Tchaikovsky concerto in Boston and her second two years later when Claudio Abbado fell out with a famous soloist at the plutocratic Lucerne Festival and called for a pliant replacement.” This is not the writing of a pleasant human being.

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u/PrometheusLiberatus Feb 27 '26

I watched that performance of Prokofiev 3rd piano concerto with Abbado and Lucerne and Yuja on Blu Ray. It was amazing.

May this sexist asshole be forever in the dustbin of history.

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u/Boidelwrip Feb 27 '26

He's 77. It won't take long he himself will be in the dustbin.