Review - French School Pianists Play French Concertos
'Another invaluable set that puts pianophiles in APR’s debt once more'
Whereas previous instalments of Navona’s mixed-composer ‘Prisma’ series have featured multiple performers, Vol 3 features just one orchestra, the Janáček...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 06/2020
What an alluring release this is, and not only because the music is built around two beloved fairy tales, Snow...
Reviewed by Donald Rosenberg in issue: 06/2020
This sixth album from the Iranian composer Reza Vali is dedicated to love and longing as heard through a lavishly...
Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 06/2020
Since Joanne Polk has long championed piano music by important pioneering women composers such as Fanny Hensel and Amy Beach,...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 06/2020
Charles Amirkhanian (b1945), composer, percussionist, record producer (not least of early discs by Antheil and Nancarrow, whose music Amirkhanian championed)...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 06/2020
North German organs of the late 17th/early 18th centuries and French organs of the late 19th/early 20th centuries, along with...
Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 06/2020
Happy the young musician with a film-maker for a friend. At least if the film-maker is as talented – yet...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 06/2020
Clearly not one to do things by halves, Daniel-Ben Pienaar – whose releases already include the complete Beethoven sonatas and...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 06/2020
It’s not enough for Yuval Zorn to be one of today’s most distinctive symphonic and opera conductors; he’s also a...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 06/2020
Anton Diabelli, the pianist, composer, and publisher from near Salzburg, brought out Beethoven’s Op 120 in 1823 and the following...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 06/2020
'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...
‘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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