Review - French School Pianists Play French Concertos
'Another invaluable set that puts pianophiles in APR’s debt once more'
Soon after welcoming the Pentatone release of Bruckner’s E minor Mass conducted by Gijs Leenaars (A/20), here are two more...
Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 12/2020
Conceived on board the MS Axel Johnson during Britten’s hazardous return voyage from North America to the UK in 1942,...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 12/2020
DG’s publicity blurb for this album describes it as ‘both a debut and a proof of musical pedigree’. It’s the...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 12/2020
Most of us seem to have spent much of lockdown earlier this year failing to get anywhere with optimistic to-do...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 12/2020
Khatia Buniatishvili is a pianist of extremes. She has fantastic fingers, a charismatic stage presence, a warm, glowing tone and...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 12/2020
L’art du chant appliqué au piano consists of 26 numbers published in four volumes between 1853 and 1863, each containing...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 12/2020
Now based in Amsterdam, Nino Gvetadze was born in Tbilisi and trained in her native Georgia before continuing her studies...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 12/2020
This is Can Çakmur’s second album for BIS. The 23-year-old Turkish pianist’s first, which included works by Beethoven-Liszt, Schubert, Haydn,...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 12/2020
I feel sure that Gabriel Schwabe has the chops and musical intellect to give a great performance of Kodály’s Solo...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 12/2020
The past quarter of a century has brought steady reappraisal of George Dyson (1883-1964), and while an extensive choral output...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 12/2020
'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...
‘With Karajan controlling everything, would Large cave in and take what amounted to a secretarial...
‘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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