Review - French School Pianists Play French Concertos
'Another invaluable set that puts pianophiles in APR’s debt once more'
De Doelen hall in Rotterdam may not boast the six-second echo of Bremen Cathedral, birthplace of the German Requiem, or...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 04/2019
For all the eccentric ordering of this fascinating set, which proceeds according to neither chronology of works or recordings, the...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 04/2019
Danny Granados (1964-2018) studied with Robert Marcellus, first chair clarinet of the Cleveland Orchestra during the Szell years, and embarked...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 04/2019
This is the second programme of music for solo horn (with – as here – or without accompaniment) to have...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 04/2019
The art-music repertoire for electric guitar is not extensive, a smattering of concertos aside (not least Fuchs’s Glacier – Naxos,...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 04/2019
When Bruce Levingston was invited to give a recital for the opening of the Civil Rights museum in his home...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 04/2019
Carl Vollrath (b1931) was a new name to me when this delightful disc of piano trios dropped through my letterbox....
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 04/2019
Now in his early forties, Matthew Quayle has amassed a catalogue of almost 50 works in a range of genres....
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 04/2019
David Owen Carpenter (b1972) was born in Poughkeepsie, NY, though is now resident in Philadelphia, and is an alumnus of...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 04/2019
Nearly everything about this disc arrives like a bolt out of the blue. The poet Robinson Jeffers (1887-1962) was quite...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 04/2019
'Another invaluable set that puts pianophiles in APR’s debt once more'
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