Review - French School Pianists Play French Concertos
'Another invaluable set that puts pianophiles in APR’s debt once more'
Vivaldi's last great set of printed concertos was La cetra (''The lyre''), published by Le Cene in Amsterdam in 1727....
Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 4/1989
Mendelssohn's youthful Octet obviously meant a great deal to Svendsen though his own essay in the medium, a product of...
Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 5/1994
Taking a break from his admired Bartok and Debussy cycles for Philips, Zoltan Kocsis brings all of his customary exuberance,...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 3/1999
This is an intriguing and fascinating documentary. Fulbert of Chartres can scarcely be more than a name to the majority...
Reviewed by mberry in issue: 12/1995
Quantz wrote about 300 concertos and 200 chamber works for the flute, more than Vivaldi did for his instrument, the...
Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 11/1991
Sigismondo d’India rarely gets the airing he deserves these days, but to confront his work with a response from a...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 9/2009
Time was when the majority of records of late medieval and renaissance music were made up of social music and...
Reviewed by Iain Fenlon in issue: 4/1988
Dufay’s songs are not well served on CD. They make episodic appearances here and there in song anthologies, but ever...
Reviewed in issue 9/1996
This panoramic traversal of Parisian organ music provides an excellent introduction to the improviser’s art, a tradition captured from the...
Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 3/2010
The confusions and contradictions seemingly inseparable from anything to do with Villa-Lobos are fully maintained here. From a composer who...
Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 6/1987
'Another invaluable set that puts pianophiles in APR’s debt once more'
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