Review - French School Pianists Play French Concertos
'Another invaluable set that puts pianophiles in APR’s debt once more'
As with Vol 4 of Masaaki Suzuki’s Bach series (A/23), this new disc was recorded in Grauhof’s Stiftskirche St Georg,...
Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 04/2024
Silvestrov, Dowland, Shaw, Rota, Brian Eno … none of these names immediately suggest Venice, but the fact that they appear...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 04/2024
‘A Room of Her Own’ continues the Neave Trio’s exploration of works by female composers begun four years ago with...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 04/2024
The hour referenced in the title is the period in the early decades of the 18th century when Italian influence...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 04/2024
Whatever you think of Schumann’s orchestrational abilities, he had a marvellous sense of instrumental character. How perfectly suited the three...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 04/2024
While clarinettists and violinists – horn players, too – may disagree, Schubert’s hedonistic Octet has always seemed to me virtually...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 04/2024
For someone who had never even heard of Johann Schenck, two discs totalling almost two hours of his music is...
Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 04/2024
Dora Pejačević (1885-1923) died at the age of 38 from complications following childbirth, yet the Croatian composer left behind a...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 04/2024
Hackles might rise at the idea of tampering with Mendelssohn’s Songs without Words, those piano gems from that fecund period...
Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 04/2024
Funny, the unconscious prejudices one acquires. Not that I’ve ever thought of the Nash Ensemble as anything other than excellent;...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 04/2024
'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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