Review - French School Pianists Play French Concertos
'Another invaluable set that puts pianophiles in APR’s debt once more'
Being appointed Master of the Queen’s Music after the death of Arthur Bliss in 1975 was probably the worst thing...
Reviewed by Geraint Lewis in issue: 06/2025
The world got to know Mieczysław Weinberg’s string quartets through the performances and complete recordings of the Danel Quartet (their...
Reviewed by Aleksander Laskowski in issue: 06/2025
What qualities do you look for in a Schumann violin sonata? Ardour, certainly, and there’s a fine romantic sweep to...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 06/2025
For their debut on the Platoon label, the Attacca Quartet offer this digital EP of Ravel’s String Quartet. Having heard...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 06/2025
For the sixth volume in their absorbing survey of Russian piano trios for Naxos, the Moscow-based Brahms Trio sink us...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 06/2025
Odd that this album should be very definitely titled ‘Mozart 1·2·3·4’ when it has very definitely come out as ‘Mozart...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 06/2025
Each of the three pieces on the present release – the first NMC has devoted to Martin Iddon’s music, after...
Reviewed by John Fallas in issue: 06/2025
In some sense, the dumka is at the heart of nearly all of Dvořák’s music. That poetic opposition between melancholy...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 06/2025
It would seem Louise Farrenc adopted the unusual scoring of her two quintets (composed in quick succession in 1839‑40) –...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 06/2025
This is an altogether stunning album. Ryo Terakado performs on a Giovanni Grancino violin made in 1690, while Fabio Bonizzoni...
Reviewed by Mark Seow 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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