Browse: Aparté (label)

Il Pomo d’Oro’s period style and approach suits a work which, like this one [Symphony No. 1], perches on the cusp between the Baroque and Classical eras...Given the underlying premise, the orchestral... — BBC Music Magazine, April 2023, 3 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 4 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…

I’m still in two minds as to how well this completion of Schubert’s score (fleshed out with a reupholstered scherzo and an en’tracte from Rosamunde) hangs together, but the poise and lyricism... — Presto Music, January 2019 More…

The title-role is given a strong identity by Cyrille Dubois’s bright little tenor. His wife Astasie is vibrantly delineated by soprano Karine Deshayes. Atar’s endless villainy is vividly presented... — BBC Music Magazine, September 2019, 4 out of 5 stars More…

This collection offers the listener a handsome conspectus of Tůma’s talents, performed with plenty of enthusiasm and stylistic understanding. The brief motet for the opening St John the Baptist... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2024, 3 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 4 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…

In the Oboe Concerto, the supple and beautiful tone conjured by Ivan Podyomov (from a modern copy of a period instrument) is as appealing as his poised musicianship. — BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2023, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Allegro con brio is what Mozart asks for in the first movement of the Symphony, and that’s what you get, with the music speeding off the blocks like Usain Bolt...The dramatic style of playing... — BBC Music Magazine, November 2022, 3 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 4 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…