Review - French School Pianists Play French Concertos
'Another invaluable set that puts pianophiles in APR’s debt once more'
Louis Glass (1864-1936) was a close contemporary of his fellow countryman Carl Nielsen and, like the slightly better-known Rued Langgaard,...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 01/2015
Born in Liverpool in 1933, David Ellis was a prize-winning composition student of Thomas Pitfield at Manchester’s Royal College of...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 01/2015
The comparative rarity here is the Violin Concerto, which shows Vaughan Williams toying with fashionable 1920s neo-classicism. His reference point...
Reviewed by Duncan Druce in issue: 01/2015
Daniel Müller-Schott’s discography already includes many peaks of the cello repertoire, so the addition of the Dvořák Concerto fills a...
Reviewed by Duncan Druce in issue: 01/2015
It’s been a good few years since I last encountered a brand-new recording of Paul Dukas’s big-hearted and meatily argued...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 01/2015
Composer, pianist and author: Peter Dickinson has enjoyed a long and successful career in all three fields and it is...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 01/2015
Listen blind and you’d never guess this was music by a Frenchman operating in the post-Boulez era, the best clues...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 01/2015
Mark Bebbington is fast becoming the Iris Loveridge de nos jours with his championship of neglected British piano music. There...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 01/2015
We have reached Vol 5 in Guild’s extensive survey devoted to the Swiss composer Fritz Brun (1878-1959). Completed in May...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 01/2015
First impressions are of unclouded Brucknerian vistas, a noble, unforced unfolding with superb playing from the orchestra, well matched tempi...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 01/2015
'Another invaluable set that puts pianophiles in APR’s debt once more'
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