Review - French School Pianists Play French Concertos
'Another invaluable set that puts pianophiles in APR’s debt once more'
Although currently little known in the UK, the Greek composer Konstantia Gourzi (b1962) is well established in Germany as a...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 01/2015
Jean Françaix’s chamber music, whose great charm is difficult to analyse, is delightfully French, with its wit, lightness of touch,...
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 01/2015
A composition pupil of Beat Furrer with six operas under her belt, Vienna-based Johanna Doderer (b1969) has some big name...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 01/2015
I find it odd that, with two works in which the piano takes the lead, it’s Johannes Moser whose photo...
Reviewed by Duncan Druce in issue: 01/2015
Martin Bresnick’s reputation as one of America’s most prominent composition teachers sometimes overshadows his own very considerable creative gifts and...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 01/2015
An impressive opening to Brahms’s Trio, Allegro energico as specified. Instrumental balance too is just. But Wu Qian tends to...
Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 01/2015
Meta4 connect well with Bartók’s sense of humour. Take the meaningful glissandos from 3'43" into the fifth movement of the...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 01/2015
Jiří Vodička is the young soloist of the Janáček Philharmonic Orchestra in Ostrava and has already made a considerable name...
Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 01/2015
Sucre, Bolivia, 2004. A man stops the American historian William L Lofstrom in the street and offers to sell him...
Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 01/2015
This disc has two themes to bind it: English keyboard music of the 17th century, and pieces composed over a...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 01/2015
'Another invaluable set that puts pianophiles in APR’s debt once more'
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‘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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