Review - French School Pianists Play French Concertos
'Another invaluable set that puts pianophiles in APR’s debt once more'
Fatma Said might look out alone from the cover of her new album, ‘Lieder’, but as a quick look through...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 04/2025
The third and final volume of ‘In Chains of Gold’ is devoted to Tomkins and his obscurer contemporaries. As in...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 04/2025
At the heart of this album – designed to accompany The Sixteen’s 2025 Choral Pilgrimage – sits music by Arvo...
Reviewed by Geraint Lewis in issue: 04/2025
The Grace Williams revival continues apace with this very significant premiere recording of her largest work for the concert hall....
Reviewed by Geraint Lewis in issue: 04/2025
Matthias Goerne and Mikko Franck are embarked on a series of Shostakovich recordings for the Alpha label of which this...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 04/2025
By now, Ian Bostridge’s followers have approximate expectations of any new recording, this one being Schumann songs written mostly in...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 04/2025
'Light and Shadow’, the title of this second album in Samuel Hasselhorn’s Schubert 200 series, could apply to virtually any...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 04/2025
Pachelbel composed at least 11 imaginatively multifaceted concertato treatments of the Magnificat. These two fine settings probably date from his...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 04/2025
Settings of the Stabat mater are rarer than for most other common sacred Latin texts, though the examples of Dvořák,...
Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 04/2025
A leading interpreter of French Baroque, Reinoud Van Mechelen ventures into very different territory in his Mozart album with A...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 04/2025
'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...
Mark Pullinger leafs through an idiosyncratic selection from Erato’s Bizet back catalogue
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