Review - French School Pianists Play French Concertos
'Another invaluable set that puts pianophiles in APR’s debt once more'
Lara Downes says ‘this music holds a nostalgia for another time in American music – a golden generation when concert...
Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 08/2014
‘The Silver Album’ has been made to mark ‘a level of artistic partnership that is rare, even in the highest...
Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 08/2014
Splendid news that one of the annual musical treats from EMI has been continued by Warner Classics but this selection...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 08/2014
The Debussy String Quartet looks a little lonely on this new disc without the usual Ravel quartet next to it...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 08/2014
This disc of chamber and piano works by Augusta Read Thomas follows on from that of her orchestral music (4/14)...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 08/2014
Shostakovich’s wartime Second Trio, such a powerful work, gets a splendid performance. From the opening, with its contrapuntal lines of...
Reviewed by Duncan Druce in issue: 08/2014
Best known as arranger and multi-instrumentalist in the rock band Arcade Fire, Richard Reed Parry has also been building a...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 08/2014
Here’s another absorbing volume of British masterworks for cello and piano, all three of which date from the 1940s and...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 08/2014
The six quartets of Mendelssohn, along with the assorted other pieces for string quartet, form a firm point of reference...
Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 08/2014
Though certainly known among cellists, the three Martinů cello sonatas don’t turn up on chamber music programmes with the frequency...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 08/2014
'Another invaluable set that puts pianophiles in APR’s debt once more'
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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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