Review - French School Pianists Play French Concertos
'Another invaluable set that puts pianophiles in APR’s debt once more'
At the start of the global pandemic, a lot of people went into lockdown with family, many escaping the big...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 02/2021
A regular in the West End, thanks to appearances at ENO and the Royal Opera, and often heard on Hollywood...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 02/2021
This is a delightful and quirky programme (something to be expected of Paul Hillier, of course), mixing contemporary music with...
Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 02/2021
To commemorate the quincentenary of Josquin’s death, Stile Antico opt for a relatively safe but generous programme: his most frequently...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 02/2021
Having some years ago given us a pair of Masses from Mozart’s Salzburg years (4/13), the choir of St Albans...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 02/2021
It isn’t obvious what ‘Handel’s Tea Time’ means, nor if it is a northerner’s main meal or a southerner’s four...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 02/2021
The selection here represents a little under half of Gál’s lieder output, nearly all of it unpublished to this day....
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 02/2021
Sigvards Kļava’s latest recording with the Latvian Radio Choir features not only first-rate performances of some of Bruckner’s better-known motets...
Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 02/2021
We’ve seen Beethoven’s An die ferne Geliebte appear in a variety of couplings over the past year but this is...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 02/2021
Although very much embedded in the UK choral scene, British composer Paul Ayres writes a lot for American ensembles, and...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 02/2021
'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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