Review - French School Pianists Play French Concertos
'Another invaluable set that puts pianophiles in APR’s debt once more'
Prokofiev, who never liked playing second fiddle to anyone, must have been piqued by Shostakovich’s Soviet celebrity. But could the...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 06/2015
‘Who was Johann Gottfried Müthel?’ asks the booklet-note, with good reason. For some his name might strike a faint bell...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 06/2015
A pianist of prodigious technique, a musician of unpredictable temperament: such is the dichotomy of Ronald Brautigam. And it isn’t...
Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 06/2015
Mendelssohn’s early one-act comic opera Die Heimkehr aus der Fremde (usually translated as ‘Son and Stranger’) had, I thought, entirely...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 06/2015
The viola player Maxim Rysanov is the star attraction in this collection of music from Martinů’s last years, during which...
Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 06/2015
There are numerous ways to tackle Mahler’s piece of premature neo-classicism in an age which has seen more recordings of...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 06/2015
Giya Kancheli may not be the first name that springs to mind when charting the development of the symphony during...
Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 06/2015
Herbert Howells made initial sketches for a cello concerto in 1933 but it was the tragic death in 1935 of...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 06/2015
Best known for his work with ensembles (not least in Bang on a Can), Michael Gordon is no slouch when...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 06/2015
Born in Brooklyn in 1947, Jack Gallagher studied composition, counterpoint and orchestration with Elie Siegmeister (1909 91). In his booklet-note...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 06/2015
'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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