Review - French School Pianists Play French Concertos
'Another invaluable set that puts pianophiles in APR’s debt once more'
A different branch of the record industry might have called this recital by the septuagenarian baritone ‘Leo Nucci unplugged’. For...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 04/2015
Glossa’s series investigating the careers of major Italian Baroque singers continues with an examination of the Neapolitan castrato Domenico Gizzi...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 04/2015
Piotr Beczała has built up such good will amid potentially troublesome Metropolitan Opera productions – from the Las Vegas Rigoletto...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 04/2015
The first release on disc of this 1961 broadcast is a potent reminder of the strengths (and quirks) of Georg...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 04/2015
In his first production as Zurich Intendant, Andreas Homoki has gone all out to concentrate on the psychological and socio-political...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 04/2015
After the success of his first opera, Oberto, Verdi was contracted to write three more for La Scala. Sad to...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 04/2015
It seems a pity that the initiative and success at Turin’s Teatro Regio of the wide-ranging Gianandrea Noseda should be...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 04/2015
This constitutes the third release in a loose Straussian triptych from C Major, following DVD/Blu-rays of Capriccio and Arabella featuring...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 04/2015
Like Les fêtes de l’Hymen et de l’Amour (Glossa, 12/14), Les fêtes de Polymnie is an opera-ballet. But whereas the...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 04/2015
‘That man has a noble style, the like of which I have found in no one else,’ remarked Gluck of...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 04/2015
'Another invaluable set that puts pianophiles in APR’s debt once more'
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‘With Karajan controlling everything, would Large cave in and take what amounted to a secretarial...
‘Yudina really was a “symbol of nonconformism” among Soviet musicians, dressed like a nun and in the...
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