Review - French School Pianists Play French Concertos
'Another invaluable set that puts pianophiles in APR’s debt once more'
Such are the purely aural delights of Bellini’s version of the Romeo and Juliet story – based on an earlier,...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 2/2000
Several of The Hilliard Ensemble’s earliest recordings were of 15th-century English music, so it is fitting that they should return...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 01/2015
Almost 50 choirbooks now survive from the copying workshop of Petrus Alamire, who happens to have been active as a...
Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 01/2015
Ever innovative in their programming, Harry Christophers and The Sixteen juxtapose Domenico Scarlatti’s beautiful 10-part Stabat mater – stile antico...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 01/2015
This landmark Delphian recording forms the fourth and final issue of a series designed to showcase Merton College’s new choral...
Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 01/2015
So much beauty, so much perfumed languor, so much rapture intermingled with sorrow is inhabited in this collection of ‘mélodies...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 01/2015
The centenary of the outbreak of the First World War has not gone unmarked in the record industry. In the...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 01/2015
Young Peter Pears comes to mind (not always happily) during this recital that finds tenor Thomas Michael Allen out of...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 01/2015
This has a genuinely interesting concept: music for alto voice and basso continuo by six accomplished ‘dilettante’ composers, some of...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 01/2015
The thesis of this disc isn’t a new one but it is always a welcome approach and has been originally...
Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 01/2015
'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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