Review - French School Pianists Play French Concertos
'Another invaluable set that puts pianophiles in APR’s debt once more'
The 30-year-old pianist Fülöp Ránki hails from a musical family. A native of Budapest, he studied under Jeno˝ Jandó, István...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 06/2025
As György Kurtág’s 2026 birth-centenary approaches, Pentatone is taking the lead in releasing recordings with which he himself was closely...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 06/2025
Alois Hába (1893-1973) is best known as a composer who experimented with microtonal music, as borne out in a three-disc...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 06/2025
Tobias Borsboom’s recording of the Java Suite coincides with the centenary of its publication. This is, I think, only the...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 06/2025
Benjamin Grosvenor’s Chopin is undoubtedly of the highest class, securely navigating as it does between temptations to understate or overstate....
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 06/2025
Rustem Hayroudinoff’s recording history so far has centred on Rachmaninov, so it is quite a change to find him turning...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 06/2025
Commissioned for pianist Anton Mejias, Philip Lasser’s The Art of Memory is a series of 12 preludes in descending chromatic...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 06/2025
For his latest release, Polish guitarist Krzysztof Meisinger reimagines the Spanish classical repertoire through gorgeous, dazzling arrangements for guitar, percussion...
Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 06/2025
This beautiful recording brings to life a mysterious manuscript probably compiled between 1660 and 1670 and containing works by Anthony...
Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 06/2025
A watercolour, Caravans by Eric Ravilious, pictured on the CD booklet, links the music of Bliss, Finzi and Gurney, whose...
Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 06/2025
'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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