Review - French School Pianists Play French Concertos
'Another invaluable set that puts pianophiles in APR’s debt once more'
I was wowed by Augustin Hadelich’s richly characterised and subtly coloured account of the Brahms Concerto (Warner, 6/19), and his...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 08/2020
‘Affinity’ by name, affinity by nature, Sharon Isbin’s terrific latest recording evinces a wonderful talent for making fully hers what...
Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 08/2020
There’s Venetian intrigue here, a touch of smoke and mirrors. The booklet cover itself raises two questions. ‘Martin Fröst Vivaldi’...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 08/2020
After his avian double bill of The Firebird and The Golden Cockerel with the RLPO (Onyx, 1/19), Vasily Petrenko has...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 08/2020
Quietly and without fuss, Moscow-born Finnish-resident Dima Slobodeniouk has been rising through the ranks with posts in Galicia and Lahti...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 08/2020
Onyx’s 2016 release of James MacMillan’s Symphony No 4 featured this large-scale single-movement work alongside the composer’s Violin Concerto. Here...
Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 08/2020
Lindberg’s Accused sets three transcripts from real-life interrogations. Indecipherability of the words dogged the piece when it was premiered in...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 08/2020
Airat Ichmouratov (b1973) is a Tatarstan-born, Canadian-resident composer. He has lived in Montreal since the 1990s but his musical roots...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 08/2020
Period performance isn’t necessarily something naturally associated with the British cellist Natalie Clein but this live recording of Haydn’s two...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 08/2020
This is apparently the first release to be dedicated to Geoffrey Gordon (b1968), though the composer has built up a...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 08/2020
'Another invaluable set that puts pianophiles in APR’s debt once more'
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Mark Pullinger leafs through an idiosyncratic selection from Erato’s Bizet back catalogue
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