Review - French School Pianists Play French Concertos
'Another invaluable set that puts pianophiles in APR’s debt once more'
Surely you might be forgiven for mistaking one of the pieces from Op 6 of Jean Louis Nicodé (1853-1919), the...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 08/2019
Incredibly, it took until 2016 for any two-piano team to make a commercial recording of Saint Saëns’s superb arrangement of...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 08/2019
Zoltán Fejérvári, a native of Budapest still in his early thirties, won the 2017 Montreal Competition and was a Borletti-Buitoni...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 08/2019
The ‘big late-Romantic French piano sonata’ championship essentially boasts two contenders: the Paul Dukas Sonata and Vincent d’Indy’s equally ambitious...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 08/2019
It may be that Jérôme Hantaï is better known to the greater musical public as a distinguished viola da gamba...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 08/2019
Bavouzet is clearly a man of ‘intégral ity’. Having recorded to great acclaim the complete works of Debussy, he launched...
Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 08/2019
The Argentinian, Dutch-trained harpsichordist Guillermo Brachetta begins his journey through the four harpsichord books of François Couperin with Book 4,...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 08/2019
Rarely does one come across a pianist with something genuinely fresh and perceptive to say in Brahms, and who manages...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 08/2019
Back in 2014 Hilary Hahn spoke warmly to Gramophone about the music of Antón García Abril (b1933), who had written...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 08/2019
Ensemble Diderot have created a decent-sized discography already since their first release five years ago; the fact that director Johannes...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 08/2019
'Another invaluable set that puts pianophiles in APR’s debt once more'
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Mark Pullinger leafs through an idiosyncratic selection from Erato’s Bizet back catalogue
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