Review - French School Pianists Play French Concertos
'Another invaluable set that puts pianophiles in APR’s debt once more'
It was serendipity that I was assigned this review while in Venice. ‘Al Bunduqiyya’ is the Arabic name for the...
Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 02/2025
Here’s a creative take on Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons to add to the pile. Violinist Daniel Pioro has joined with...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 02/2025
The opening of Tippett’s Piano Concerto (1953 55) is sheer poetic magic – a low C in the depths of...
Reviewed by Geraint Lewis in issue: 02/2025
This is the 11th volume of a series entitled ‘Next Generation Mozart Soloists’ undertaken by the Swiss Orpheum Foundation. The...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 02/2025
Dejan Lazić’s track record in Mozart is well established, as is his collaboration with Jan Willem de Vriend and the...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 02/2025
In Poland some people will recognise Artur Malawski’s name as that of the patron of the Podkarpacka Philharmonic in Rzeszów...
Reviewed by Aleksander Laskowski in issue: 02/2025
You’d expect Gavin Higgins and Ben Goldscheider to strike special sparks off each other – a horn-player-composer steeped in brass...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 02/2025
Like the Transit of Venus or mild ale, final instalments of Haydn symphony cycles appear infrequently, which makes them worthy...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 02/2025
The main focus of interest on this third Chandos disc of Ruth Gipps’s orchestral music is the first recording of...
Reviewed by Geraint Lewis in issue: 02/2025
Through no fault of its own, this performance of Elgar’s Violin Concerto emerges at a very unfortunate time. It was...
Reviewed by Geraint Lewis in issue: 02/2025
'Another invaluable set that puts pianophiles in APR’s debt once more'
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