Review - French School Pianists Play French Concertos
'Another invaluable set that puts pianophiles in APR’s debt once more'
This issue marks the first foray into contemporary repertoire by John Wilson and the Sinfonia of London. The four works...
Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 10/2023
At a difficult time for UK new music (the much-loved contemporary ensemble Psappha depressingly having taken the decision to close...
Reviewed by Liam Cagney in issue: 09/2023
American tenor Lawrence Brownlee’s new recording is a very personal project – a disc with a mission. ‘Rising’, in the...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 09/2023
This is not the first concept album based around the original sin in the Garden of Eden. It’s not even...
Reviewed by Neil Fisher in issue: 09/2023
It is refreshing to encounter a singer – Robyn Allegra Parton – whose gifts of curation are it would seem...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 09/2023
The name of the German baritone Thomas Laske is new to me, as indeed is that of his superb partner...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 09/2023
These two Lutheran Passions from opposite ends of the Baroque spectrum show how approaches to setting the gospel accounts of...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 09/2023
The death of Kaija Saariaho, so soon after the first London performances of her opera Innocence and the BBC/Barbican ‘Total...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 09/2023
This series has for some time been pointing towards a more sensuous, sensitive Palestrina than many of us expected. Poor...
Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 09/2023
This is the Cambridge-based ensemble De Profundis, founded in 2011, as opposed to the older ensembles of the same name...
Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 09/2023
'Another invaluable set that puts pianophiles in APR’s debt once more'
New releases celebrate iconic recordings, fresh discoveries and musical adventures across the...
WiiM Ultra/VibeLink Amp: an ultra-compact take on the ‘just add speakers’ system, this affordable...
‘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...
Mark Pullinger leafs through an idiosyncratic selection from Erato’s Bizet back catalogue
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