Review - French School Pianists Play French Concertos
'Another invaluable set that puts pianophiles in APR’s debt once more'
Volume 2 in Neeme Järvi’s Raff series for Chandos brings the Fifth (and best-known) of the prolific Swiss-German composer’s 11...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 05/2014
Though billed as the fourth volume of Hyperion’s ‘The Romantic Cello Concerto’, most of the music on this disc was...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 05/2014
This disc is a revelation. I have long been an admirer of Pettersson’s music, particular the symphonies from the 1960s...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 05/2014
From the very first bar of some discs you know you are in safe hands – artist, orchestra, conductor, sound...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 05/2014
If that really is restraint I’m hearing inside these performances of Nielsen’s Fourth and Fifth Symphonies from Sakari Oramo and...
Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 05/2014
Leevi Madetoja was a hard-working composer-conductor-teacher-critic whose strongest claims to fame are his two operas, The Ostrobothnians and Juha. His...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 05/2014
Recently I was introduced to Handel’s life-affirming Op 4 Organ Concertos played on a modern concert grand (2/14). Now, like...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 05/2014
The coupling of the Grieg and Schumann piano concertos was long dominated by the virtually ideal partnership of Stephen Kovacevich...
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 05/2014
Both previous instalments in this valuable series (reviewed by Edward Greenfield in 11/10 and 4/11) boasted more than their fair...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 05/2014
First, a happy observation. This is the fourth CD of Dvorák’s Sixth that I’ve reviewed in the last two or...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 05/2014
'Another invaluable set that puts pianophiles in APR’s debt once more'
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‘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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