Review - French School Pianists Play French Concertos
'Another invaluable set that puts pianophiles in APR’s debt once more'
The young Belgian pianist Florian Noack devotes Volume 1 of what promises to be the complete solo piano music of...
Reviewed in issue 03/2014
Early in the 19th century Achim von Arnim and Clemens Brentano assembled the Knaben Wunderhorn collection of German folk poems,...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 04/2014
Clare College Choir’s recording of music for Passiontide, interspersed with the plainchant Stabat mater dolorosa text, is not only a...
Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 04/2014
Like buses, CD releases often come in batches. No sooner had the sound of Conspirare’s low basses stopped reverberating after...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 04/2014
DVD recordings of concerts do not always promise the most exciting of visual spectacles, especially when filmed in an auditorium...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 04/2014
Someone, it seems, is keen on putting Gdan´sk on the musical map of Europe. A little while ago I reviewed...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 04/2014
Hugo Wolf’s songs tend to be such self-sufficient worlds in miniature that one rarely sees them given the sort of...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 04/2014
This disc brings together five cantatas closely associated with Luther, mostly on texts by Telemann’s long-term collaborator Erdmann Neumeister and...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 04/2014
The first recording of Tallis’s Missa Puer natus est nobis dates from 2001 – a result not of neglect but...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 04/2014
This certainly isn’t the most mellifluous Schöne Müllerin around. While Florian Boesch’s baritone is resonant and colourful, a dulcet legato...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 04/2014
'Another invaluable set that puts pianophiles in APR’s debt once more'
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