Review - French School Pianists Play French Concertos
'Another invaluable set that puts pianophiles in APR’s debt once more'
Barrios was an undisputed master of the guitar, Villa-Lobos a desultory practitioner, Ginastera a non-playing admirer of its unique sound...
Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 12/2023
Frank Peter Zimmermann’s solo Bach was a lockdown project hatched at home, begun with no definite intention of recording but...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 12/2023
For his earlier recording of the Notebooks for Anna Magdalena Bach (8/23), Mahan Esfahani used both a clavichord and a...
Reviewed by Philip Kennicott in issue: 12/2023
Winner of the 2019 Trondheim International Chamber Music Competition and BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artists, the Mithras Trio launch...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 12/2023
We last encountered Gautier Capuçon on his album ‘Sensations’ (1/23), striding at low tide towards Mont Saint-Michel with cello in...
Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 12/2023
It was time resulting from lockdown that prompted Alexandra Mackenzie and Ingrid Sawers to delve into this wealth of largely...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 12/2023
Overcoming the prejudice and condescension of the Parisian establishment, Louise Farrenc (1804‑75) was the most successful female composer of her...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 12/2023
The Feininger Trio here bring together works of two Viennese masters, written when both were young men near the beginning...
Reviewed by Amy Blier-Carruthers in issue: 12/2023
Many 20th-century composers relished bringing borrowed materials into contact with the new modernist qualities, as a special kind of dramatic...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 12/2023
The title of Thomas Adès’s clarinet quintet is pregnant with implications of how composers turn base notes into musical gold,...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 12/2023
'Another invaluable set that puts pianophiles in APR’s debt once more'
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