Review - French School Pianists Play French Concertos
'Another invaluable set that puts pianophiles in APR’s debt once more'
Kalevi Aho may not be as well known for his solo music as for his orchestral but he makes his...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 05/2015
Since winning the Kathleen Ferrier Award in 2011, mezzo-soprano Kitty Whately has been gradually building her reputation in both concert...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 05/2015
The reign of Rudolf II (1576-1611) marked the zenith of Prague as an imperial capital. But whereas Rudolf’s patronage of...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 05/2015
Sunhae Im, the Korean soprano familiar from her contributions to René Jacobs’s recordings of Mozart operas, here turns to concert...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 05/2015
This impressively wide collection of pieces comes from the formidable Leeds-based choir, the St Peter’s Singers, recording in Frank Matcham’s...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 05/2015
Early music needs another British vocal ensemble like a meerkat needs car insurance. It’s a field that’s already standing-room only,...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 05/2015
Philippe Jaroussky clearly subscribes to the habit-forming appeal of French art song, having titled his first recorded recital ‘Opium’, and...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 05/2015
It would be difficult to find a group more steeped in serious musicological research than Cappella Romana, and their discs...
Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 05/2015
Launched with 2014’s ‘The Art of Melancholy’ (Hyperion, 7/14), the partnership between young lutenist Thomas Dunford and countertenor Iestyn Davies...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 05/2015
The music of Spain’s Golden Age has always been near to Harry Christophers’s heart, a commitment that shines through in...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 05/2015
'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...
‘With Karajan controlling everything, would Large cave in and take what amounted to a secretarial...
Mark Pullinger leafs through an idiosyncratic selection from Erato’s Bizet back catalogue
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