Review - French School Pianists Play French Concertos
'Another invaluable set that puts pianophiles in APR’s debt once more'
Zlata Chochieva, whose beautiful sound at the piano is of a silvery, crystalline clarity, has chosen to juxtapose Mozart and...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 07/2022
Sandro Fuga (1906 94) came from a northern Italian family of painters and sculptors with – at several removes –...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 07/2022
In his booklet notes for Chopin’s Ballades and Piano Sonata No 3, Jae-Hyuck Cho speaks of his goal to attain...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 07/2022
Some charming playing here from California-born, Paris-based harpsichordist Lillian Gordis, and what’s perhaps even more special is how much it...
Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 07/2022
Aside from navigating its considerable technical hurdles and textural complexities, pianists who take on Iberia must convey idiomatic affinity and...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 07/2022
This recording, like so many others that have come my way this year, seems aimed to offer comfort. The title,...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 07/2022
Patricia Kopatchinskaja’s latest programme, a typically adventurous affair, has been put together with considerable care. To open with Morton Feldman’s...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 07/2022
Lifelong New Yorker Bruce Wolosoff (b1955) is a formidable pianist and a composer who delights in blurring genre boundaries. I’ve...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 07/2022
The first volume in the Arcadia Quartet’s cycle of Weinberg’s string quartets (3/21) was a solid basis from which to...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 07/2022
I was mightily impressed with Elena Ruehr’s first six quartets (5/18), choosing that Avie set as my Critics’ Choice for...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 07/2022
'Another invaluable set that puts pianophiles in APR’s debt once more'
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