Review - French School Pianists Play French Concertos
'Another invaluable set that puts pianophiles in APR’s debt once more'
Like Rob Cowan‚ I was very much taken with Nikolaj Znaider’s début coupling of Nielsen and Bruch (EMI‚ 4/01); this...
Reviewed in issue 6/2002
Alicia de Larrocha, that incomparable interpreter of the Spanish repertoire, is revisiting many of her favourite musical haunts on RCA...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 1/1996
The discography of this work is now extensive yet each new version adds to our knowledge and presents different aspects...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 1/1994
This is an enterprising selection of Britten performed by the Choir of St Thomas's in Fifth Avenue, New York City,...
Reviewed in issue 5/1991
I was astonished at the low level of the Teldec recording. In searching for the ideal volume setting I had...
Reviewed in issue 3/1992
Dufay's four-voice Ecce ancilla Domini Mass was probably composed in the early 1460s. The three-voice Mass Proper cycle De angelis...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 11/1994
The coronation of a Roman Catholic king in Westminster Abbey in 1685 involved recasting the service so as not to...
Reviewed in issue 7/1987
Roughly half of this set is strongly recommendable—and even the half that isn't is still well worth hearing. Ferenc Fricsay...
Reviewed in issue 11/1994
In March 2000 Riccardo Muti conducted a staged performance of Tosca for the first time, only the second Puccini opera...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 5/2003
Listening again to Marriner's beautifully graceful, cantabile account of Apollon, I was reminded more than once of what Stravinsky said...
Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 3/1985
'Another invaluable set that puts pianophiles in APR’s debt once more'
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