Review - French School Pianists Play French Concertos
'Another invaluable set that puts pianophiles in APR’s debt once more'
Giaches de Wert’s scant discography is no reflection of his music’s intrinsic worth, or its influence on later composers (not...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 12/2022
This is a potentially useful round-up of all Façade’s completed material a century on from its first composition. It contains...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 12/2022
The lion’s share of the fourth – and final – instalment in Albion Records’ project to record Vaughan Williams’s complete...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 12/2022
As winter creeps in, you could do worse than seek synergy and solace in the amassed depressions, longings and forebodings...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 12/2022
Schubert scholars have had a field day interpreting his strange 1822 tale of death, exile and reconciliation, titled ‘Mein Traum’...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 12/2022
Rossini’s Messa di Gloria, commissioned for performance on the feast of Our Lady of Sorrows in Naples in March 1820,...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 12/2022
There is absolutely no justification for this recording except for the fact that it works so well. That is to...
Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 12/2022
Little survives of the work of Mogens Pedersøn, one of the most prominent Danish musicians of the early Baroque period;...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 12/2022
To deal first with the purely instrumental works on this collection, both Fratres and Spiegel im Spiegel are given superbly...
Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 12/2022
Confession time: I admit to having not previously heard a note of this Polish composer before, despite the fact that...
Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 12/2022
'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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