Review: Thalberg: L’Art du Chant (Paul Wee)
Songs without words delight from start to finish.
December 20, 2020
Will Yeoman
Will Yeoman is a former senior arts writer and current travel journalist for The West Australian newspaper. A regular contributor to Limelight and Gramophone, he is also Artistic Director of the York Festival and a keen classical guitarist.
Articles by Will Yeoman
Review: Good Night! (Bertrand Chamayou)
Going gentle into the good night with a magical piano recital.
December 11, 2020
Review: Care pupille (Samuel Mariño)
Male soprano Mariño is in luck with Gluck and Handel.
November 16, 2020
Review: Alchemy (Andrew Blanch and Ariel Nurhadi)
A fine debut from two gifted Australian guitarists.
October 19, 2020
Review: Dunhill & Erlanger: Piano Quintets (Goldner String Quartet, Piers Lane)
More musical gold from the old country unearthed by the Goldners and Piers Lane.
October 7, 2020
Review: Guarnieri: Choros I, Seresta
The "Brazilian Mozart" offers an alternative to Villa-Lobos.
October 6, 2020
Review: Monteverdi: Complete Madrigals (Delitiae Musicae)
All-male performances show Monteverdi's madrigals in a new light.
September 24, 2020
Review: José de Nebra: Vendado Es Amor, No Es Ciego
Plenty of Spanish sizzle in this sometimes zany zarzuela.
September 20, 2020
Vocal & Choral
Review: Michael Daugherty: This Land Sings (Dogs of Desire, David Alan Miller)
Woodie Guthrie inspires a musical monument for our troubled times.
August 28, 2020
Review: Handel: Semele (Monteverdi Choir)
Sexy, vain and petulant – a Semele for our times?
August 27, 2020
Review: Purcell: The Fairy Queen (Gabrieli Consort & Players)
The Gabrieli Consort & Players strikes Purcellian gold again.
August 27, 2020
Review: Telemann: Miriways (Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin)
An opulent new recording of a forgotten classic.
August 27, 2020
Review: Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1 (Trevor Pinnock)
Pinnock stands triumphant on one of the pinnacles of keyboard music.
July 7, 2020