Review - French School Pianists Play French Concertos
'Another invaluable set that puts pianophiles in APR’s debt once more'
A number of contemporary operas have embraced the 21st century by taking recent historical events as their starting point. American...
Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 11/2014
The almost 15-year-old Mozart’s first opera seria (Milan, 1770) was performed 22 times but not revived again until 1970. The...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 11/2014
König David? The world hasn’t exactly been waiting for a German language recording of this once-popular musico-dramatic telling of the...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 11/2014
Another Handel arias disc? Yes; although for once not just a run-down of usual arias from roles a singer happens...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 11/2014
Cavalli’s Giasone (Venice Carnival, 1649) was originally structured into a prologue and three acts, but the short prologue and numerous...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 11/2014
Two discs sharing the same title by two American pianists who investigate the evolution of Austro-German modern composition since the...
Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 11/2014
The Paraguayan Barrios (he added Mangoré later in life) and Brazilian Villa-Lobos were close contemporaries (born in 1885 and 1887...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 11/2014
When Christopher Robinson displayed the 1896 Hope-Jones organ of Worcester Cathedral in his 1968 recording for HMV’s ‘Great Cathedral Organ’...
Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 11/2014
A varied and sensitively planned programme, based on a genre that is in itself full of contrasts, slow against fast,...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 11/2014
Liszt could hardly have received a more sumptuous or ingenious tribute than that offered by Antonio Pompa-Baldi. Opening with the...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 11/2014
'Another invaluable set that puts pianophiles in APR’s debt once more'
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