Review - French School Pianists Play French Concertos
'Another invaluable set that puts pianophiles in APR’s debt once more'
Here it would be nice to say we have two for the price of one: two versions of Pelléas and...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 01/2022
This second instalment in Capriccio’s ambitious project to record all of the versions of the symphonies in the New Anton...
Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 01/2022
Ahead of the planned release of Christian Thielemann’s recording of Bruckner’s First Symphony with the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra in his...
Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 01/2022
‘The most astounding genius I have ever heard’, declared Leopold Stokowski after hearing the seven-year-old Oscar Shumsky, who made his...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 01/2022
It may be more usual for a young artist to dip their first toes in the recording waters with a...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 01/2022
Purists will doubtless scoff at the idea of another album of recomposed Baroque music but there is some justification when...
Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 01/2022
This album is something of an A&R executive’s dream: two Norwegian superstars – and exclusive artists for rival labels –...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 01/2022
The concept for Canadian-Trinidadian pianist Stewart Goodyear’s latest album is something of a puzzle. Its title, ‘Phoenix’, derives, so the...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 12/2021
Jonah Kim has taken Approaching Autumn, the title of Mark Abel’s new work for cello and piano, as the title...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 12/2021
This is not the first time that Earl Kim (1920 98) and Isang Yun (1917 95) have appeared together on...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 12/2021
'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...
‘With Karajan controlling everything, would Large cave in and take what amounted to a secretarial...
‘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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