Mar 21, 2021 | Outstanding [category w.e.f. January 2021], Recording Reviews
The short-lived Russian pianist and composer Alexey Stanchinsky (1888-1914) was playing in public by age six and was highly regarded in all the musical activities he undertook; he had some distinguished tutors, too. Sadly, Stanchinsky became “unstable”, and his death...
Mar 21, 2021 | Recording Reviews
September 18 & 19, 2019, Barbican Hall, Simon Rattle and the LSO give two performances of ‘Rach 2’: the end-result is this recording, which is opulent and glamorous-sounding, somewhat at-odds with the venue itself when experienced from within, and with a quotient...
Mar 20, 2021 | Outstanding [category w.e.f. January 2021], Recording Reviews
Magical delights, whether listening with mother courtesy of Fauré, boating or looking back to antiquity with Debussy, taking it easy with Stravinsky, crashing about while relishing the coruscating wit and tender sentiment of pithy Poulenc, or surveying a fairy garden...
