Review - French School Pianists Play French Concertos
'Another invaluable set that puts pianophiles in APR’s debt once more'
Composers such as Hans Neusidler, whose works could be seen as integral to the development of their instrument’s repertoire –...
Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 10/2022
In the small differences between Mussorgsky’s original piano score and Rimsky-Korsakov’s revision, Jimin Oh-Havenith sticks quite faithfully to the manuscript....
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 10/2022
Composers who write piano études usually aim for bravura and surface flash. Not so Kevin Volans. Although his études certainly...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 10/2022
Daniel Jones (1912-93) is best known as the composer of 13 symphonies, eight string quartets, choral works and the incidental...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 10/2022
Several years ago pianist Konstantin Lifschitz approached his composer friend Peter Seabourne with the idea of composing a set of...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 10/2022
You will struggle to find a more impassioned, feisty account of Bach’s solo music for violin. Verbier Festival Gold, the...
Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 10/2022
I absent-mindedly loaded this disc into my CD player and promptly forgot about it. The next day I powered up...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 10/2022
Saudade means a melancholy longing, and the São Paulo-born guitarist Plínio Fernandes’s debut recording is suffused with it. The repertoire...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 10/2022
The tensed, animated world of Beethoven’s Fourth Quartet (1798-1800), perhaps the darkest of the six works in his Op 18,...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 10/2022
Bojan Čičić and The Illyria Consort bring us two discs that cover the 12 sonatas that make up Johann Jakob...
Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 10/2022
'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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