Review - French School Pianists Play French Concertos
'Another invaluable set that puts pianophiles in APR’s debt once more'
Spohr’s first two symphonies were once staple fare in London concerts, perhaps largely because they provided an untroubling renewal of...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 10/2007
The repertoire here is firmly post-Segovia, written in idioms from which the maestro would have shrunk; he did indeed reject...
Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 4/1994
Torvaldo e Dorliska is a two-act, semi-serious “rescue” opera which attempts, not entirely successfully, to revisit the world of Rossini's...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 12/2006
Haitink’s is something of a Cinderella among Eighths. No less an authority than Deryck Cooke gave it a warm welcome...
Reviewed in issue 1/1996
I approached this disc with some trepidation. The first volume ((CD) CD605, 5/90), though warmly recorded, featured a badly out-of-tune...
Reviewed by Michael Stewart in issue: 6/1991
The economically minded will have already noticed that this set takes only two CDs to the three of its rivals....
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 3/1986
A new generation of viol players are recording the music of Sainte-Colombe and Marin Marais, inspired by the success of...
Reviewed in issue 2/1994
Mozart’s splendid flute music provides the strongest proof that his supposed dislike for the instrument was only to justify his...
Reviewed in issue 8/1996
Here are two Belgian composers in cello music on a Belgian label but with a Russian cellist and a Bulgarian...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 1/2012
These are very direct, very musical performances of Handel’s first half-dozen organ concertos. No period instruments, no gimmicks, but just...
Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 6/1998
'Another invaluable set that puts pianophiles in APR’s debt once more'
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