Review - French School Pianists Play French Concertos
'Another invaluable set that puts pianophiles in APR’s debt once more'
There are plenty of pre-Soviet Russian symphonies awaiting disinterment, but none by a more major historical figure than these two....
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 6/2007
With four recently issued or reissued discs of Rachmaninov's Vespers—by Sveshnikov, Polianski (both Le Chant du Monde/Harmonia Mundi), Robev (Sound...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 12/1989
This record contains all the three-part music now thought to survive from Josquin. There are also two that that influential...
Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 12/1985
Tallis is one of those composers of whom one never tires: fresh discoveries are made at each new listening. The...
Reviewed by mberry in issue: 4/2000
The discerning collector of French melodies will know to avoid most of the recordings made by Gerard Souzay after about...
Reviewed in issue 9/1994
Unavailable on Compact Disc for more than a decade, Herbert von Karajan’s analogue recording of the Ninth here makes its...
Reviewed in issue 12/1996
In 1971 Sir Arthur Bliss celebrated his eightieth birthday, and as a tribute to the man who had been their...
Reviewed in issue 9/1992
The fast trickle of new Lully opera recordings continues to run its course providing Baroque music lovers with some of...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 12/2008
This is in fact one of three discs from Caprice showing off the impressive artistry of the Stockholm Symphonic Wind...
Reviewed in issue 3/1993
Take the first four tracks of the second CD, the start of the Second Act, and you'll hear some of...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 1/1992
'Another invaluable set that puts pianophiles in APR’s debt once more'
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‘With Karajan controlling everything, would Large cave in and take what amounted to a secretarial...
‘Yudina really was a “symbol of nonconformism” among Soviet musicians, dressed like a nun and in the...
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