Review - French School Pianists Play French Concertos
'Another invaluable set that puts pianophiles in APR’s debt once more'
There are people I respect who seem convinced that the belligerent crossover of Michael Gordon and his pals from New...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 11/2002
When just over a year ago Michael Dutton launched his budget-price Essential Archive series of historical recordings he understandably chose...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 5/1997
The Amadeus Quartet and Cecil Aronowitz were a famous ensemble in Mozart's six string quintets, and this issue is a...
Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 3/1991
“I am no Misliwetcek! I am a young and decent-minded Mozart,” protested Wolfgang to his father from Mannheim in 1778...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 4/2007
This is an important issue, and first let me praise the enthrallingly good singing of the London Sinfonietta Voices and...
Reviewed in issue 10/1988
The Rouen-born Marcel Dupre would have been proud of this fastidiously prepared disc. His Prelude and Fugue in C (Op....
Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 6/1999
Jean-Philippe Collard's record of the 13 Barcarolles dates from 1970 and was for some time available as an import on...
Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 5/1987
I suspect Keith John and Jean Guillou (on Dorian/Conifer) are using the same edition of the score, but differences in...
Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 4/1990
I certainly rank clarity as being a prerequisite for good piano playing, but with Mischa Dichter it appears to have...
Reviewed by James Methuen-Campbell in issue: 11/1987
Philip Hope-Wallace once suggested in these columns that the newest, Giulini-conducted, Don Giovanni was worth a year at a foreign...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 9/1988
'Another invaluable set that puts pianophiles in APR’s debt once more'
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‘Yudina really was a “symbol of nonconformism” among Soviet musicians, dressed like a nun and in the...
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