Review - French School Pianists Play French Concertos
'Another invaluable set that puts pianophiles in APR’s debt once more'
While Sibelius long held a deluded idea of himself as a ‘man of the people’, Nielsen actually was one –...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 06/2015
L’Allegro is just the work for those who doubt that the periwigged monument of Victorian imagination was one of the...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 06/2015
In a pre-concert interview around the time of this recording in June 2014, Elizabeth Watts discussed how her academic background...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 06/2015
Programmes of Robert and Clara Schumann are becoming increasingly popular these days, and Nurit Stark and Cédric Pescia, Israeli and...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 06/2015
William Lawes’s 10 Royal Consort sets (or suites) were probably composed for the Caroline court during the 1630s. Unswerving royalist...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 06/2015
The performance of the Sonata is on a large scale, with generous, full tone and a vivid, resonant recording. Gabetta...
Reviewed by Duncan Druce in issue: 06/2015
Audite’s recording is close if not claustrophobic, close enough to differentiate the character of the four Italian instruments as well...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 06/2015
There’s a very particular sound to this recording and it’s one you can trace partially back to Delphian’s 2009 disc...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 06/2015
South-West German Radio’s ‘country’ series continues with a varied selection of late 19th- and 20th-century Italian choral music. Given the...
Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 06/2015
I suppose there must be choirs of equal merit to King’s College but none has the unassailable advantage of making...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 06/2015
'Another invaluable set that puts pianophiles in APR’s debt once more'
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‘Yudina really was a “symbol of nonconformism” among Soviet musicians, dressed like a nun and in the...
Mark Pullinger leafs through an idiosyncratic selection from Erato’s Bizet back catalogue
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