Review - French School Pianists Play French Concertos
'Another invaluable set that puts pianophiles in APR’s debt once more'
The rather curious title here, ‘Nordic Cello Soul’, covers widely diverse music by three Nordic composers. The pair of opening...
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 07/2014
Rune Glerup (b1981) is a young Danish composer of whom there are high hopes for the future in his native...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 07/2014
Daishin Kashimoto makes his second appearance in Eric Le Sage’s Fauré series, this time taking centre stage. He’s a persuasive...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 07/2014
Smetana’s G minor Trio has one of the grandest openings in the entire piano trio repertoire, its Lisztian axis much...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 07/2014
Ensemble F2’s project, prepared last year for Finchcocks Musical Museum in Kent, explores the chamber music of Franz Danzi (1763-1826)....
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue:
This double set completes the Avison Ensemble’s survey of Corelli’s published opuses. Both of these Roman publications contain 12 trio...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 07/2014
The Italy of the 1920s was not a good place to be. Luckily, though, jazz was starting to enjoy some...
Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 07/2014
'Personal music demands personal music tools,’ writes the American composer Chris Campbell as he outlines how his new album pulls...
Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 07/2014
Contradictions rule. Brahms’s biographer Florence May (1905) says of the Clarinet Quintet: ‘The tone of gentle loving regret that prevails...
Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 07/2014
Repeated listening to Bach’s Sonatas for viola da gamba and harpsichord deepens one’s sense of their formal variety within a...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 07/2014
'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...
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