Review - French School Pianists Play French Concertos
'Another invaluable set that puts pianophiles in APR’s debt once more'
We don’t hear enough of Dvořák’s Slavonic Rhapsodies and I think I know why. Listen to the opening of the...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 12/2024
My heart sank a bit when I saw George Crumb’s A Haunted Landscape (1984) on this programme. Much as I...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 12/2024
Viola player Diyang Mei is only 30 years old but already principal viola of the Berlin Philharmonic. His first concerto...
Reviewed by Geraint Lewis in issue: 12/2024
Gregor Piatigorsky thought that Luigi Boccherini must have been the greatest cellist who ever lived, and Steven Isserlis (who cites...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 12/2024
After a childhood full of celluloid Miklós Rózsa it is good to be reminded of how the concert hall freed...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 12/2024
Many recordings of Bartók’s First Piano Concerto understandably spotlight the intricate percussion-writing alongside the solo piano, even though the composer...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 12/2024
Nemanja Radulović is a captivating soloist, and his razor-sharp opening to the final movement of the Concerto in D minor,...
Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 12/2024
‘Aria with diverse variations for a harpsichord with two manuals composed for music lovers to refresh their spirits’ was the...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 12/2024
Now this is my kind of Brahms playing: open-hearted, elastic and generously phrased. Alisa Weilerstein and Inon Barnatan take the...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 12/2024
This new recording from the Houston-based Apollo Chamber Players string quartet, which has commissioned over 50 works for a variety...
Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 12/2024
'Another invaluable set that puts pianophiles in APR’s debt once more'
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