Review - French School Pianists Play French Concertos
'Another invaluable set that puts pianophiles in APR’s debt once more'
For pianists and music lovers who came of age in the 1970s and ’80s, Maurizio Pollini’s Beethoven recordings were considered...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 04/2020
Two years ago it was the Diabelli Variations; now 24-year-old Filippo Gorini is scaling scarcely less Himalayan peaks. And I...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 04/2020
In James Blish’s story A Work of Art, scientists in an art-starved future use the music of Richard Strauss to...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 04/2020
Ursula Paludan Monberg, born in 1982 in Aalborg, Denmark, is already the doyenne of the natural horn, having occupied principal...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 04/2020
You could be forgiven for looking at the title of this latest collaboration between French masters of their art, Jean-Guihen...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 04/2020
Ethel Smyth became the doyenne of British women composers but she was young once, as evidenced by her early Cello...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 04/2020
This release includes the sixth (at least) recording of Vasks’s Episodi e Canto perpetuo but it’s still arguably the least...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 04/2020
The Norwegian recorder player Caroline Eidsten Dahl has really ticked the boxes with this collection of nine of Telemann’s recorder...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 04/2020
It seems a while since we’ve seen the Kungsbacka Trio on disc, most recently with Haydn and Fauré on Naxos...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 04/2020
There’s something of the Parisian café about Poulenc’s music for woodwinds. The opening of the Sextet is a prime example,...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 04/2020
'Another invaluable set that puts pianophiles in APR’s debt once more'
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‘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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