Review - French School Pianists Play French Concertos
'Another invaluable set that puts pianophiles in APR’s debt once more'
The five piano sonatas of George Walker (1922-2018) reveal the trajectory of his creative evolution, as well as the kind...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 03/2022
Where has Florence Price been all our lives? Waiting for the world to open its ears and consciences to composers...
Reviewed by Donald Rosenberg in issue: 03/2022
Flautists will, I think, be rather excited by this disc. Transcriptions for flute of major works for violin is nothing...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 03/2022
There are three stories being told here. The first is that, contrary to what people may think, the tenor was...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 03/2022
Amare e fingere was staged in Siena in May or June 1676 but might have been first performed in Rome...
Reviewed in issue 03/2022
This is the second staging by the Rossini in Wildbad Festival of L’occasione fa il ladro, the richly freighted one-act...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 03/2022
Titon et l’Aurore was the third of Mondonville’s operas: first performed at the Paris Opéra in 1753, it was a...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 03/2022
The Mathis der Maler Symphony (1933 34) gets top billing here but it is the third recording of Hindemith’s still...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 03/2022
This is an excellent successor to the album that Sandrine Piau recorded with Christophe Rousset and Les Talens Lyriques 18...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 03/2022
Leonardo García Alarcón cuts Semele copiously yet reinstates two numbers that Handel rejected and never performed. Part 1 is given...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 03/2022
'Another invaluable set that puts pianophiles in APR’s debt once more'
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Mark Pullinger leafs through an idiosyncratic selection from Erato’s Bizet back catalogue
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