Review - French School Pianists Play French Concertos
'Another invaluable set that puts pianophiles in APR’s debt once more'
This has taken a few years to hit the shelves. Arnaud Bernard’s staging of I Capuleti e i Montecchi, Bellini’s...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 08/2022
We’re lucky to have several early recordings of Bryn Terfel singing lieder – including a handsome Liederkreis (DG, 5/00) –...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 08/2022
Prolific representations of pastoral life are sometimes dismissed as whimsy, especially when the members of the nobility were masquerading as...
Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 08/2022
As with all of The Sixteen’s releases, this new one manages to magically bridge the old and the new with...
Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 08/2022
I’ve not always been kind to La Reverdie, but one must salute the remarkable stability of their cast and approach...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 08/2022
This is one of those rare recitals that takes one risk after another – with handsome pay-offs in what initially...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 08/2022
Until recently girls had little choice when it came to top-level choristerships. The news that both St John’s, Cambridge, and...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 08/2022
After Winterreise (4/14) and Schwanengesang (A/19), Gerald Finley and Julius Drake arrive at Die schöne Müllerin. As with the previous...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 08/2022
After an impressive debut album devoted to Schumann (11/20), the young German baritone Samuel Hasselhorn turns to Schubert for his...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 08/2022
A search reveals that the name of Pietro (or Pier) Giuseppe Sandoni has never appeared in Gramophone before, so a...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 08/2022
'Another invaluable set that puts pianophiles in APR’s debt once more'
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