Review - French School Pianists Play French Concertos
'Another invaluable set that puts pianophiles in APR’s debt once more'
Patricia Kopatchinskaja’s recording of Peter Eötvös’s seven (2006) made a strong impression (Recording of the Year in the 2013 Awards)...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 06/2015
The Austrian violinist Thomas Albertus Irnberger, together with his Czech colleagues, achieves here some inspiring results. Benefiting from crisp, beautifully...
Reviewed by Duncan Druce in issue: 06/2015
The first bars of this set are so startling that you momentarily suspect that there must have been a mistake....
Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 06/2015
Mainly set down in one session, Oliver Davis’s ‘Flight’ is a loose concept built around the violin-playing of Kerenza Peacock....
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 06/2015
Three facets of Castiglioni’s homage to the past are represented on this disc from the Danish National Symphony Orchestra, joined...
Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 06/2015
To recap: in Gramophone’s March 2015 issue, I nominated Bruckner’s Third Symphony as his most problematic score and suggested that...
Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 06/2015
This disc is something special. It features some of Brian’s most attractive scores – including one of my very favourites,...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 06/2015
Apart from bearing the title ‘Timeless’ and including several moody photos of David Garrett, this issue has no links to...
Reviewed by Duncan Druce in issue: 06/2015
‘Even when not written out, a single bassoon is always present to double the basses. There was certainly no harpsichord...
Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 06/2015
The Nemtanu sisters – Sarah, leader of the French National Orchestra, and Deborah, leader of the Paris Chamber Orchestra –...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 06/2015
'Another invaluable set that puts pianophiles in APR’s debt once more'
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