Though Marc-André Hamelin has made a number of hugely impressive recordings of the romantic piano repertoire, Chopin has never ranked high among his priorities. Hamelin is far too good a pianist not ...
The flute solo that opens Paavo Jarvi's account of Prélude à l'Après-midi is all too prophetic of what is to come: placed in an over-resonant acoustic, with a tone throbbing with vibrato, all the ...