Review - French School Pianists Play French Concertos
'Another invaluable set that puts pianophiles in APR’s debt once more'
Armand-Louis Couperin was not the nephew of François Couperin, as is sometimes asserted in both historic and contemporary accounts of...
Reviewed by Philip Kennicott in issue: 12/2020
A decade after the start of his Chopin series, for its sixth volume Louis Lortie offers another carefully arranged bouquet,...
Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 12/2020
So the journey ends. A project that began back in 1994 has finally reached its conclusion with this sixth volume....
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 12/2020
It was in 2009 that Tabea Zimmermann released the first two of Bach’s Solo Cello Suites alongside Reger’s three on...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 12/2020
When Beethoven decided in 1795 to announce himself to his adopted Vienna as a published composer, it was not with...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 12/2020
There’s every likelihood, were it not for his being highlighted as Gramophone’s One to Watch in the November issue, that...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 12/2020
Théotime Langlois de Swarte. Have you ever read such a fabulous name? And with fabulous playing to match, it’s a...
Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 12/2020
Augusta Read Thomas’s association with Nimbus has been crucial to expanding her recorded profile, and this eighth release provides an...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 12/2020
The Emerson Quartet mark their debut on Pentatone after a long association with DG with the three quartets of Schumann....
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 12/2020
In the mythic language of Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings, Arod – the name given to Legolas’s horse –...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore 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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