Review - French School Pianists Play French Concertos
'Another invaluable set that puts pianophiles in APR’s debt once more'
Gli Angeli Genève perform the Mass in B minor with 10 singers (six concertists and four ripienists) and an orchestra...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 08/2021
Lise de la Salle is no stranger to mixing and matching composers and eras, as her half a dozen CDs...
Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 08/2021
I was delighted to be able to give a warm welcome to this pianist’s debut recording back in the long-ago...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 08/2021
Listening to a Franz Halász album is like biting into a Granny Smith. The playing is always fresh, crisp, juicy...
Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 08/2021
Like most of the rest of the world, viola player Hiyoli Togawa confronted solitude, anxiety and loneliness during the pandemic...
Reviewed by Philip Kennicott in issue: 08/2021
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a musician in possession of talent and imagination must be in want of...
Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 08/2021
You might want to buy this CD for the cover alone. It’s a close-up detail of John Singer Sargent’s wonderful...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 08/2021
It is worth quoting the conductor-pianist’s thoughts on the genesis of this recording dedicated to his late teacher Anisia Campos...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 08/2021
Roman Rabinovich follows up his earlier volume of Haydn’s piano sonatas (2/19) with this second instalment, once again responding with...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 08/2021
This was my introduction to Viviana Lasaracina, another outstanding talent from the studio of Benedetto Lupo. Quite frankly, at first...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 08/2021
'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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