Review - French School Pianists Play French Concertos
'Another invaluable set that puts pianophiles in APR’s debt once more'
Well before Fischer-Dieskau began to explore the more recherche corners of Schubert's song opus, Hotter—as Fischer-Dieskau has often himself stated—had...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 7/1988
Dutoit's American takes like a native to Paris—as well he might given the Montreal Symphony Orchestra's near-ideal blend of French...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 3/1990
In the early 1970s, when three versions of the Vingt regards had just appeared, I plumped for the one by...
Reviewed in issue 12/1991
Charles Tomlinson Griffes, who died at 35 in 1920, represents the high point of American post-Romanticism. From his European training...
Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 4/2004
The excellence of research and performance in this enlightening series on the 19th-century musical salon – this is Volume 5...
Reviewed by kYlzrO1BaC7A in issue: 7/2003
The attics are empty, the cellars are bare and the voices of ghosts from the stage of the past will...
Reviewed in issue 6/1994
This is a wonderfully uplifting performance of one of Haydn’s most cheerful Masses. It’s hard to believe that this jovial...
Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 2/1997
Over the years Tchaikovsky’s piano music has been undervalued. Even the G major Sonata has been neglected outside Russia (though...
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 1/2010
Thea King's Hyperion recording of all three of Crusell's clarinet quartets, first issued on LP in 1983, was a pioneering...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 12/1989
The earliest of the three works here is the F major Missa brevis which Haydn wrote in about 1749. The...
Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 3/1987
'Another invaluable set that puts pianophiles in APR’s debt once more'
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