Review - French School Pianists Play French Concertos
'Another invaluable set that puts pianophiles in APR’s debt once more'
The main work on John Wilson’s new Dutilleux disc is the 1953 ballet Le loup, commissioned by Roland Petit to...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 07/2021
Richard Dubugnon writes postmodern music that has a smile on its face and its tongue in its cheek. Born in...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 07/2021
Martha Argerich was clearly on fiery form when she was captured live in May 2018 in Debussy’s early Fantaisie, a...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 07/2021
It seems that at 92, with recordings of all of the Schubert and Sibelius symphonies and two cycles each of...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 07/2021
If Anna Tsybuleva’s name rings a bell, you may recall her as winner of the 2015 Leeds Piano Competition –...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 07/2021
Initial impressions – an audaciously spread opening pair of chords – suggest a symphonie funèbre et triomphale, minus the jingling...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 07/2021
Surely here was an opportunity to stray a little from the well-trodden path and offer perhaps Mussorgsky’s startling original version...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 07/2021
In December 2019 Lindsay Kemp called Rinaldo Alessandrini’s recording of Bach’s Orchestral Suites perhaps ‘the danciest ever’. There’s a new...
Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 07/2021
As with Schiff’s Schubert Sonatas and Impromptus for ECM New Series (6/19), so his Brahms concertos, self-directed from a restored...
Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 07/2021
The most familiar groups of composers linked by nationality are probably the ‘Russian Five’ and the French ‘Les Six’. On...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 06/2021
'Another invaluable set that puts pianophiles in APR’s debt once more'
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‘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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