Review - French School Pianists Play French Concertos
'Another invaluable set that puts pianophiles in APR’s debt once more'
It’s been less than a year since Alpha released Fazıl Say’s thrilling and thought-provoking duo recital with Patricia Kopatchinskaja (2/23)....
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 11/2023
It is not every pianist who can pick up the phone and ask Martha Argerich, Mischa Maisky or Nelson Freire...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 11/2023
No prizes for guessing the focus of this multi-composer programme; and yes, this would hardly be the first programme to...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 11/2023
The Tcherepnin family is a musical dynasty that has given us several generations of composers. The music of the three...
Reviewed by Marina Frolova-Walker in issue: 11/2023
The Busch Trio have been garnering glowing reviews in 19th-century repertoire. Now they show themselves equally at home in the...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 11/2023
There are many recordings of Purcell’s Fantazias to choose from: broken consort in London Baroque’s early account (EMI, 3/84 –...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 11/2023
The belated issue of recordings by the Wiener Schubert Trio, after Schubert (8/11) then Chausson, Debussy and Rachmaninov, continues with...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 11/2023
Musical alchemies are often forged in strange and unexpected ways, and this engaging album of music by Mozart, Pärt and...
Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 11/2023
This is Ensemble Spinoza’s debut album, and I commend them for choosing to record Buxtehude’s Op 1. There is already...
Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 11/2023
It’s probably fair to say that Anthony Burgess is still best known as the author of A Clockwork Orange. But...
Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 11/2023
'Another invaluable set that puts pianophiles in APR’s debt once more'
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