Review - French School Pianists Play French Concertos
'Another invaluable set that puts pianophiles in APR’s debt once more'
Unfettered personal feelings burst forth; calm mingling with turbulence and harmonic disruption leap off the page at every turn. Sakari...
Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 06/2015
This absorbing disc, the 65th in Hyperion’s endlessly enterprising ‘Romantic Piano Concerto’ series, juxtaposes the Albéniz Concerto with two first...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 06/2015
This is something special and I urge everyone interested in the discography of Schubert’s piano music to hear it. Unsure...
Reviewed by Stephen Plaistow in issue: 06/2015
Tintomara is a character from 18th-century Swedish literature who, if not exactly Janus-like, has a dichotomous purpose in projecting the...
Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 06/2015
Linking these three violin sonatas under the title ‘Sounds of War’ produces a powerful recital. Each work caused its composer...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 06/2015
This is Singaporean cellist Brendan Goh’s second recording (the first was a charity CD), and the title presumably refers to...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 06/2015
There are so many violin sonatas by Italian composers from the first half of the 18th century that mixed anthologies...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 06/2015
This truly outstanding CD is not only ideally programmed and superbly played – using a clarinet from 1830 and a...
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue:
Putting one’s finger on the personality of Alexandre Tansman (1897-1986) can be bewildering and defeating. His core sensibility is elusive,...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 06/2015
Here is a more than respectable calling-card for the young Anglo-Irish Carducci Quartet, who clearly have the technical measure of...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 06/2015
'Another invaluable set that puts pianophiles in APR’s debt once more'
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