Review - French School Pianists Play French Concertos
'Another invaluable set that puts pianophiles in APR’s debt once more'
This is in many ways a ‘traditional’ Monteverdi Vespers, carrying little in the way of musicological baggage. Performed in the...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 08/2014
This recital takes us through 25 years of Mahler’s composing life, from the Frühe Lieder to the Rückert Lieder. Not...
Reviewed in issue 08/2014
Robert Kyr (b1952) represents a curious phenomenon: a composer just now achieving mainstream recognition after a long, productive creative life...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 08/2014
Intrepid admirers of Baroque sacred music will probably know something about Handel’s so-called Brockes Passion (c1716), and there have also...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 08/2014
As one of his most perfect works, Josquin’s Mass Ave maris stella is now available in a wide range of...
Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 08/2014
When John Rutter composed The Shepherd’s Pipe Carol for the second volume of Carols for Choirs back in 1967, he...
Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 08/2014
It is misleading to rank The Triumph of Time and Truth (1757) as Handel’s last English oratorio. Unlike Jephtha (1752),...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 08/2014
His classical credentials might be impeccable but Jorge Grundman (b1961) is best known for his research into acoustics and technology...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 08/2014
Performances on disc remain relatively rare, and I wish I could greet this new recording of Bruckner’s Mass No 3...
Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 08/2014
'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...
Mark Pullinger leafs through an idiosyncratic selection from Erato’s Bizet back catalogue
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