Review - French School Pianists Play French Concertos
'Another invaluable set that puts pianophiles in APR’s debt once more'
That Gottfried von der Goltz and the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra have arrowed straight to the three most popular (and uncoincidentally...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 03/2023
Jean-Efflam Bavouzet’s happy collaboration with Gábor Takács-Nagy and the Manchester Camerata in the Mozart piano concertos, begun in 2016, has...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 03/2023
One of Arturs Maskats’s intentions with his symphonic poem Tango (2002), which came third in the 2003 Masterprize International Composers’...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 03/2023
‘The greatest harmonist in Italy, that is to say in the world’, wrote Jean-Jacques Rousseau of Francesco Durante in his...
Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 03/2023
‘The Wild Sound of the 20s’ is the subtitle that Bavarian Radio has given a programming strand celebrating the year...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 03/2023
This album provides an excellent opportunity to hear three recent works by the Israeli-French-British composer Nimrod Borenstein, all of which...
Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 03/2023
I’ve yet to see a staged double-bill of Bartók’s symbolist ballet The Wooden Prince and his allegorical operatic masterpiece Duke...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 03/2023
There are no booklet notes to speak of attached to this Bach and Pärt programme from Arabella Steinbacher. Just a...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 03/2023
An intriguingly organised album from Holland Baroque. The ensemble have made a name for themselves with their cross-cultural ‘encounters’, including...
Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 03/2023
The past few years have seen a regular flow of releases of Grażyna Bacewicz’s music, and recordings of many of...
Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 03/2023
'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...
Mark Pullinger leafs through an idiosyncratic selection from Erato’s Bizet back catalogue
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