Review - French School Pianists Play French Concertos
'Another invaluable set that puts pianophiles in APR’s debt once more'
Still very much with us at the age of 86, Leon Fleisher made these Cologne recordings midway between his winning...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 06/2014
Julia Zilberquit’s Bach concerto cycle for Musical Heritage Society gains a new lease of catalogue life on Warner Classics. The...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 06/2014
Bravo to the young American violinist Chad Hoopes for choosing such an unusual coupling of concertos for his debut CD....
Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 06/2014
This is a promising sign, not only from the Italian countertenor Raffaele Pé but also the recently founded band Spiritato!,...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 06/2014
Hugo Wolf’s Spanisches Liederbuch has been recorded by many of the great Wolf singers. But this youngish, lesser-known foursome have...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 06/2014
Michael Talbot judges that Vivaldi’s cantatas accompanied only by basso continuo ‘constitute the least innovatory portion of his output, but...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 06/2014
Gaetano Veneziano (1665-1715) trained in Naples and taught for most of his life at the city’s Conservatorio di S Maria...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 06/2014
Ah yes: John Christopher Smith, geboren Johann Christoph Schmidt, whom Handel invited to London in 1716 to look after his...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 06/2014
Purcell’s music is above all memorably tuneful in a new way for English music. But apart from its prolific melody,...
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 06/2014
Among French singers, François Le Roux has been one of the foremost in revealing the delights and diversity of Poulenc’s...
Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 06/2014
'Another invaluable set that puts pianophiles in APR’s debt once more'
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