Review - French School Pianists Play French Concertos
'Another invaluable set that puts pianophiles in APR’s debt once more'
The astonishing Frank Dupree here continues his Kapustin odyssey with the fifth of the composer’s six piano concertos, and two...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 04/2023
Johannes Klumpp continues sweeping up the remaining early symphonies in the Haydn cycle inaugurated by Thomas Fey almost a quarter...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 04/2023
Ravenna-based Accademia Bizantina and harpsichordist Ottavio Dantone have never been monogamous with record companies – their prolific discography has been...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 04/2023
In 1887, after three years of work, Bruckner sent the completed score of the Eighth Symphony to the conductor Hermann...
Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 04/2023
My discovery of this extraordinarily recreative take on Beethoven’s Violin Concerto coincided with a period when the notion of ‘presentism’...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 04/2023
The Third and Fourth Concertos round out what has been an impressive Beethoven cycle. Let’s start with the conducting. Vasily...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 04/2023
Earworm alert! Originally composed for brass band and presented here in a splendidly idiomatic orchestration by Philip Lane, Malcolm Arnold’s...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 04/2023
‘The American Project’ is a grand title for a recording of a forgettable new piano concerto by an American conductor-composer,...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 04/2023
Mozart’s most famous quintets conclude a sequence of four instrumental works from the winter and spring of 1786 87 whose...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 04/2023
For their debut recording, the Lantana Trio – Raquel Samayoa (trumpet), Stacie Mickens (horn) and Natalie Mannix (trombone), all faculty...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 04/2023
'Another invaluable set that puts pianophiles in APR’s debt once more'
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Mark Pullinger leafs through an idiosyncratic selection from Erato’s Bizet back catalogue
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