Review - French School Pianists Play French Concertos
'Another invaluable set that puts pianophiles in APR’s debt once more'
Whether or not this release’s ‘Vol 1’ designation signifies the start of a Mozart piano concerto cycle, it nevertheless showcases...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 03/2020
These releases’ provocative titles suggest that Juliana Soltis and Mike Block are about to knock Bach’s Cello Suites off their...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 03/2020
Street Scene appeared on Broadway in 1947 and never returned to the Great White Way. But if it was not...
Reviewed by Neil Fisher in issue: 03/2020
German opera still seems slower following up its newcomers than its Italian counterpart (unless we’re talking Jonas Kaufmann). This show...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 03/2020
‘Is there such a thing as a “Verdian Soprano”?’ asks the booklet to this debut release from Olga Mykytenko. Everyone...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 03/2020
There’s no denying the star attraction of Philipp Stölzl’s new Rigoletto for the Bregenz Festival: his €8 million set. Of...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 03/2020
Galina Vishnevskaya, one of the great Tatyanas of the 20th century, vowed never to set foot inside the Bolshoi again...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 03/2020
The feared Viennese critic Eduard Hanslick was full of praise for A Santa Lucia but then he was using Tasca’s...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 03/2020
If there’s one thing that last year’s Offenbach anniversary celebrations demonstrated, it’s the sheer inexhaustibility of his well of melody....
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 03/2020
The climax of Handel’s Italian sojourn, Agrippina ran and ran after its sensational Venice premiere early in 1710. As told...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 03/2020
'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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