Review - French School Pianists Play French Concertos
'Another invaluable set that puts pianophiles in APR’s debt once more'
‘I find it impossible to separate Bruckner from his deep spiritual beliefs’, writes Manfred Honeck in his notes for this...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 09/2024
As with Markus Poschner’s cycle of the Bruckner symphonies for Capriccio, Gerd Schaller’s series of recordings for Profil aims to...
Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 09/2024
As Donald Rosenberg noted (6/22US) of a previous album of hers, ‘Margaret Brouwer covers a lot of emotional territory in...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 09/2024
Numerous chamber orchestras have recorded the Brahms symphonies over the past quarter of a century. My favourite features the Chamber...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 09/2024
I don’t know whose idea this album was, but it was a good one. We hear too little of the...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 09/2024
>Thirty-two-year-old Chinese pianist Tianqi Du has been devoting his early career to Bach, and boldly chose the Goldberg Variations for...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 09/2024
Joana Mallwitz’s first recording for the yellow label is something of a triumph. The programme is generous and will hopefully...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 09/2024
This is the second instalment in the Pacifica Quartet’s three-disc project exploring the ‘sounds of America’ in anticipation of the...
Reviewed by Thomas May in issue: 09/2024
‘Between Breath’, the New Focus label’s fourth release devoted to music by Scott Wollschleger, contains four premieres written over a...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 09/2024
Having released upwards of 20 albums over a period of nearly 30 years, primarily for his own jazz quartet and...
Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 09/2024
'Another invaluable set that puts pianophiles in APR’s debt once more'
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