Review - French School Pianists Play French Concertos
'Another invaluable set that puts pianophiles in APR’s debt once more'
Nikolay Roslavets was born in 1881, the same year as Myaskovsky, Bartók and Enescu. His father worked for the railway,...
Reviewed by Aleksander Laskowski in issue: 04/2025
The Trio Con Brio Copenhagen recorded the Ravel Trio for a 2007 release (nla) on the US-based Azica label. It...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 04/2025
‘Sonatas for keyboard with violin accompaniment’, we are always reminded, and in performances on instruments of the period (or very...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 04/2025
‘On the page it looked nothing. The beginning simple, almost comic. Just a pulse – bassoons and basset-horns – like...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 04/2025
Marin Marais’s 1723 collection La gamme et autres morceaux de symphonie comes between his fourth (1717) and fifth (1725) Livres...
Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 04/2025
All four Haydn piano trios collected here are from late in the composer’s career but none might really be counted...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 04/2025
The music of Reynaldo Hahn is well known to song enthusiasts – who doesn’t adore the delectable ‘À Chloris?’ –...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 04/2025
Once upon a time (ie in 2008) there was a major record label called EMI. Its ambitious Polish branch published...
Reviewed by Aleksander Laskowski in issue: 04/2025
‘He always enjoyed a tavern sextet’, recalled Dvořák’s friend Josef Zubatý, and the fledgling composer played more than his share...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 04/2025
A quick canter through the pages of Gramophone reveals that scant attention has been paid to Marcel Dupré’s chamber and...
Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 04/2025
'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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