Review - French School Pianists Play French Concertos
'Another invaluable set that puts pianophiles in APR’s debt once more'
Kristian Bezuidenhout returns to his slowly emerging Mozart concerto survey with a pairing of two flat-key works: the misnamed Jeunehomme,...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: AW22
Dutton’s admirable championship of Benjamin Godard (1849-95) continues with a third volume, not of piano music this time but of...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 10/2022
Having taken over from Esa-Pekka Salonen back in 2009, Dudamel has proved himself an assiduous curator of the ‘LA Sound’,...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: AW22
Domingo Hindoyan, chief conductor of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic since 2021, makes both his debut on disc and his first...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: AW22
As a consequence of Bruckner’s various revisions to his Third Symphony there are three separate versions of the score in...
Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: AW22
If Naxos’s new cycle of Brahms’s symphonies had been recorded with a full-size orchestra, this review might have been something...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: AW22
Previous instalments in Harmonia Mundi’s multi-ensemble anniversary Beethoven cycle from these players (4/20, 10/20) have raised issues of balance between...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: AW22
Premiered at a concert conducted by Wilhelm Stenhammar in Stockholm in 1899, when Alfvén was 27, the second of the...
Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: AW22
You never quite know what you’ll get on record next from Paavo Järvi, though there was the slightest clue some...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: AW22
Robert le diable was first performed at the Paris Opéra on November 21, 1831. The theatre’s new manager, Louis Véron,...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: AW22
'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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