Review - French School Pianists Play French Concertos
'Another invaluable set that puts pianophiles in APR’s debt once more'
A child of the 18th century, Schubert’s first interpreter, the baritone Johann Michael Vogl, would routinely subject melodic lines to...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 10/2024
It’s the best kind of logic – follow Rodgers and Hammerstein’s first Broadway show Oklahoma! with their second. This again...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 10/2024
Although Parry is often thought of as a composer of Anglican church music, he did in fact write very little...
Reviewed by Jeremy Dibble in issue: 10/2024
I didn’t ‘get’ this touched-up version of the Seven Last Words when I first heard it courtesy of the Henschel...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 10/2024
I warmly welcome this new addition to our collective understanding of the Prince of Venosa. No longer headlining as a...
Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 10/2024
Conductors who record Fauré’s Requiem are likely to do so at least twice. Mysteries are few, vocal lines have no...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 10/2024
em>Hamlet tends to get under the skin, but it’s a sign of how seriously Brett Dean took his 2010 Glyndebourne...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 10/2024
For the second release in his projected survey of Brahms’s complete songs on Linn, Malcolm Martineau is joined by mezzo...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 10/2024
Teacher and pupil Einojuhani Rautavaara and Kalevi Aho sit well together, not least as each tempered stringent formal principles with...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 10/2024
The grim cloak of war informs all of the music on this disc to varying degrees, as discussed in vivid...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 10/2024
'Another invaluable set that puts pianophiles in APR’s debt once more'
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‘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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