Review - French School Pianists Play French Concertos
'Another invaluable set that puts pianophiles in APR’s debt once more'
Elisabeth Lutyens (1906 83) is not noted for her piano music but wrote for the instrument throughout her career, and...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 11/2021
Paul Lewis’s second volume of Haydn sonatas features, like the first (which I reviewed in 5/18), four strikingly different characters....
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 11/2021
The Dutilleux discography having grown out of all proportion to his output says much for the esteem in which his...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 11/2021
Chopin indicates his Op 18 as a Grande valse brillante, yet Anna Fedorova’s fussy detailing and unsettled basic pulse make...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 11/2021
A long list of international competition victories and performances grace the 39-year-old Israeli-born, American-based pianist Ran Dank’s résumé, not to...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 11/2021
Sophie Yates is an artist who wears her immense erudition lightly. Listening to her, one encounters the composer’s voice, clothed...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 11/2021
When we say Bach was a family man, what do we mean? Albums such as the ‘Alt-Bachisches Archiv’ from Cantus...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 11/2021
Christoph Croisé gives an exceptionally free account of Kodály’s monumental Solo Sonata, applying rubato copiously throughout. It’s a somewhat risky...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 11/2021
It is sometimes said, only half-jokingly, that Schubert didn’t write for the piano, but against it. Even among the most...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 11/2021
Percussionist Calum Huggan’s debut solo album, alongside displaying his technical chops and sensitivity, shows how open the marimba is for...
Reviewed by Liam Cagney in issue: 11/2021
'Another invaluable set that puts pianophiles in APR’s debt once more'
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