Review - French School Pianists Play French Concertos
'Another invaluable set that puts pianophiles in APR’s debt once more'
Godard’s fortunes have taken a decided turn for the better in recent years, with two recordings of both his piano...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 01/2015
Janina Fialkowska continues her Chopin odyssey with a subtle and elusive challenge. The 55 Mazurkas (extended from what was once...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 01/2015
The third volume in Barry Douglas’s Brahms cycle once again suggests carefully considered and imaginative programme-planning rather than following a...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 01/2015
Described as ‘a rising star’, the 19-year-old Austrian pianist Aaron Pilsan has surely already risen, and it is greatly to...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 01/2015
It’s interesting that many harpsichordists purport to approach Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier with scholarly authority, yet still come up with disparate...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 01/2015
Piazzolla must be the most-arranged composer of recent times, a tribute to his compositions’ inherent strength as much as to...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 01/2015
Here are two distinguished new versions of Walton’s still underestimated Cello Concerto. Both display heaps of eloquence and perceptive artistry...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 01/2015
This is the fourth recording of Villa-Lobos’s enormous, magnificent, overblown, genre-melding Tenth Symphony (1952) I know of (those by Gisele...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 01/2015
Faced with the unusual commission for a large-scale symphonic work for orchestra and big band, Estonia’s leading symphonist decided to...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 01/2015
Dennis Russell Davies doesn’t give us fast-lane Stravinsky. The Introduction to ‘The Adoration of the Earth’ approximates a slowly evolving...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 01/2015
'Another invaluable set that puts pianophiles in APR’s debt once more'
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