Review - French School Pianists Play French Concertos
'Another invaluable set that puts pianophiles in APR’s debt once more'
Period-instrument recordings of Mozart’s delightful Concerto for flute and harp are surprisingly infrequent, so it is good to see this...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 10/2024
Isata Kanneh-Mason’s fifth Decca release is dedicated to the music of Fanny and Felix Mendelssohn in an interesting programme including...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 10/2024
Hard on the heels of Kirill Karabits’s high-powered Faust Symphony (Audite, 10/23) comes Gergely Madaras’s version from Liège, equally compelling...
Reviewed by Peter J Rabinowitz in issue: 10/2024
Anders Hillborg’s Violin Concerto No 2 is a real head-scratcher, but after eight or nine listens I’m just about ready...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 10/2024
It might be construed as ironic were the music of Thomas de Hartmann (1884-1956) to achieve wider recognition as a...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 10/2024
Catalan composer Roberto Gerhard (1896-1970) – a student of Granados, Pedrell and Schoenberg – left Spain after the civil war...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 10/2024
There is, of course, a very real sense of ownership when the Czech Philharmonic play these pieces. Everything evolves so...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 10/2024
In October 2023 Toronto-born pianist Eric Guo, 21, won first prize in the Second Chopin International Competition on Period Instruments...
Reviewed by Stephen Cera in issue: 10/2024
Unlike his previous recording of Bruckner’s Fourth Symphony with the Clevelanders, which was filmed in concert in St Florian in...
Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 10/2024
Both of these recordings were set down in 2020 and have presumably been held back until now to coincide with...
Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 10/2024
'Another invaluable set that puts pianophiles in APR’s debt once more'
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