Review - French School Pianists Play French Concertos
'Another invaluable set that puts pianophiles in APR’s debt once more'
David Owen Norris plays a gloriously resonant Broadwood and his colleagues play appropriate 18th- (or 17th-) century instruments. The music...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 09/2019
Bernhard Molique (1803-69) is one of those composers who, revered and highly respected in their time, have slipped between the...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 09/2019
This disc celebrates the 80th birthday of Heinz Holliger, and although it explores his interpretative gifts as a performer rather...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 09/2019
Erika Fox – like Alexander Goehr, four years her senior – came to England with her family as a small...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 09/2019
Originally issued in 2012 as a digital-only offering, this lovely Finzi programme now makes a welcome debut on silver disc....
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 09/2019
Gottfried Finger (1655-1730) is one of those figures you might know from mixed-composer discs but rarely find as a sole...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 09/2019
As viola player Sam Quintal’s introductory note celebrates, this disc ‘marks the culmination’ of the Jasper Quartet’s 10-year involvement with...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 09/2019
When Bojan Čičić and his Illyria Consort gave us the first six of Carbonelli’s set of 12 violin sonatas (8/17),...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 09/2019
Let’s not get embroiled in the argument as to whether there really are five Brahms violin sonatas – Ulf Wallin...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 09/2019
Since 1993 the Common Sense Composers’ Collective has created more than 70 new works, released four albums and produced five...
Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 09/2019
'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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