Review - French School Pianists Play French Concertos
'Another invaluable set that puts pianophiles in APR’s debt once more'
Mozart informed his father that he had composed the Serenade K375 ‘rather carefully’ to impress Herr von Strack, a Viennese...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 02/2015
Roberto Prosseda has already been rattling his way through Mendelssohn’s piano music for Italian Decca, and here he is joined...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 02/2015
David Matthews’s purposeful, imaginative and inventive music has rightly gained its own following, which the Kreutzer Quartet’s excellent cycle of...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 02/2015
It would be hard and probably undesirable to pin any sort of label on the music of Laurent Lefrançois, the...
Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 02/2015
These young players based in New York boast a formidable range of accomplishments: perfect chording, beautifully matched tone, precise technical...
Reviewed by Duncan Druce in issue: 02/2015
The 1990s fashion for dispensing as many recordings as possible of ‘newly discovered’ Baroque music did not always guarantee the...
Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 02/2015
Arturo Fuentes is a Mexican composer born in 1975 currently living in Austria, whose music has attracted sufficient attention to...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 02/2015
Two composers in particular spring out as influences on these two very different quintets: Schumann in Op 1, most specifically...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 02/2015
It might have seemed that there could not be any more early works by Britten waiting to be discovered but...
Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 02/2015
A feature of this issue is the inclusion of both versions of the Op 8 Trio – the original of...
Reviewed by Duncan Druce in issue: 02/2015
'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...
‘Yudina really was a “symbol of nonconformism” among Soviet musicians, dressed like a nun and in the...
‘With Karajan controlling everything, would Large cave in and take what amounted to a secretarial...
Mark Pullinger leafs through an idiosyncratic selection from Erato’s Bizet back catalogue
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