Review - French School Pianists Play French Concertos
'Another invaluable set that puts pianophiles in APR’s debt once more'
Signum has done us a great service in making available this recording of the reduced version of The Veil of...
Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 04/2014
Awareness of the Terezín composers over the last 25 years reaches a culmination in this documentary DVD companion to the...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 04/2014
Perhaps the most striking feature of this recording from the Choir of St Mary’s Cathedral, Edinburgh, is the way in...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 04/2014
The affecting, chilling bleakness of ‘Gute Nacht’ immediately suggests that this is going to be a Winterreise of vision and...
Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 04/2014
Upon hearing this terrific release for the first time, I remarked to a friend that it could easily have been...
Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 04/2014
The Nightingale Quartet’s first volume of Rued Langgaard (6/12) brought to attention a quartet output which, though not unknown, was...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 04/2014
If any genre is likely to tap the emotional resources of a great composer, it’s the violin concerto – Vivaldi...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 04/2014
Perhaps you have observed the recent explosion of Weinberg recordings and are wondering whether the pendulum may have swung too...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 04/2014
Despite the steady number of works that have appeared on various labels, Augusta Read Thomas (b1964) has not had the...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 04/2014
From Claudio Abbado to Günter Wand, this greatest of all unfinished masterpieces has repeatedly appealed to great conductors nearing the...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 04/2014
'Another invaluable set that puts pianophiles in APR’s debt once more'
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‘Yudina really was a “symbol of nonconformism” among Soviet musicians, dressed like a nun and in the...
‘With Karajan controlling everything, would Large cave in and take what amounted to a secretarial...
Mark Pullinger leafs through an idiosyncratic selection from Erato’s Bizet back catalogue
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