Review - French School Pianists Play French Concertos
'Another invaluable set that puts pianophiles in APR’s debt once more'
Valentin Silvestrov’s output of piano miniatures during 2003 17 has often been remarked on while being easily misunderstood. Begun seemingly...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 01/2020
Freddy Kempf’s previous instalment of solo Prokofiev (with Sonatas Nos 1, 6 and 7 and some early works) in 2003...
Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 01/2020
One doesn’t necessarily have to know the plots or subtexts attached to these ‘Tales from Russia’ to appreciate their musical...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 01/2020
Jean Muller continues his series of Mozart piano sonatas, launched almost a year ago (4/19), when it came up against...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 01/2020
If you struggle to make some sort of sense of Doomin Kim’s new Warner Classics release of Mendelssohn’s solo piano...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 01/2020
James Brawn continues his serious progress though the Beethoven sonatas, an MSR series which commenced in 2012, with Vol 6...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 01/2020
The first five-disc set of Peter Kofler’s projected complete Bach organ works series claims to make use of an innovative...
Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 01/2020
For all the myriad appeal of the six French Suites and miscellaneous transcriptions of Alexandra Papastefanou’s new two-disc First Hand...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 01/2020
The Miró Quartet began their Beethoven cycle in 2004 with Op 18. I sat in on one of those recording...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 01/2020
Though Richard Boothby writes in the booklet notes that this ‘isn’t an anniversary’ of their first recording, ‘In nomine’ (Amon...
Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 01/2020
'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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