Review - French School Pianists Play French Concertos
'Another invaluable set that puts pianophiles in APR’s debt once more'
‘Gusto in art is power or passion defining any object’, wrote William Hazlitt. Gusto defines these performances – better than...
Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 03/2021
Piazzolla never employed the saxophone in any of his own various tango ensembles, most likely because its reedy tone would...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 03/2021
The first volume of Mozart’s violin concertos from Aislinn Nosky turns out to be two-thirds reissues, the Third Concerto and...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 03/2021
David Matthews continues to build on the rich British symphonic tradition, offering a principled alternative to those 20th-century styles that...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 03/2021
Bergamo-born violin virtuoso Pietro Locatelli once described in a 1711 letter how, to improve his violin-playing, he used to practise...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 03/2021
The Croation pianist Goran Filipec – whose contributions thus far to the Naxos Liszt series include sets of the Paganini...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 03/2021
Given his prowess as trombonist and abilities as conductor, Christian Lindberg could hardly be called a ‘jack of all trades’...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 03/2021
Whereas on the previous disc of music by David Gompper (b1954) that I reviewed (3/19) the three works were all...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 03/2021
The pandemic dampened many musical celebrations last year, but the Zurich Chamber Orchestra – or at least its string players...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 03/2021
A couple of years ago I was much impressed by an account of Catoire’s Piano Quintet led by Bengt Forsberg...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 03/2021
'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...
‘Yudina really was a “symbol of nonconformism” among Soviet musicians, dressed like a nun and in the...
‘With Karajan controlling everything, would Large cave in and take what amounted to a secretarial...
Mark Pullinger leafs through an idiosyncratic selection from Erato’s Bizet back catalogue
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