Review - French School Pianists Play French Concertos
'Another invaluable set that puts pianophiles in APR’s debt once more'
It was as recently as July that I welcomed a high-quality recording of Jommelli’s Requiem that at last superseded a...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: AW20
Jamie Barton’s all-embracing talent – her powerful presence, her spectacular vocal equipment – has a whole lot of Heggie to...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: AW20
It’s not often that works by Bruckner and Stravinsky are paired together, but the two Masses on this release make...
Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: AW20
A whole generation has elapsed since René Jacobs’s much-admired disc of Bach motets (Harmonia Mundi, 7/97), and even its high...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: AW20
When Bach Collegium Japan performed the St John Passion in London early on in their spring 2020 European tour –...
Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: AW20
Where might the Norwegian Soloists’ Choir head after Berio’s Coro, pondered Gramophone’s review of the ensemble’s last recording (6/20). The...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: AW20
Domenico Scarlatti stands in relation to his great Baroque era contemporaries Bach and Handel much as Chopin did to peers...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: AW20
Bertrand Chamayou begins the essay to his new disc of berceuses and lullabies with the admission ‘I’m a night owl’....
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: AW20
To my ears, Haydn’s ‘Gott erhalte Franz den Kaiser’ Variations lose something in translation en route between the original string...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: AW20
Recent anniversaries have undoubtedly raised the profile of Bernd Alois Zimmermann (1918-70). Stopping short of full maturity, his solo piano...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: AW20
'Another invaluable set that puts pianophiles in APR’s debt once more'
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‘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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