Review - French School Pianists Play French Concertos
'Another invaluable set that puts pianophiles in APR’s debt once more'
I feared the worst having seen the soloist’s photograph in the booklet before listening to the disc. The photogenic Ms...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 10/2008
Do we really need another selection of ballads, novelty numbers and singalong dance tunes from shows which were either unproduced,...
Reviewed in issue 13/1997
Segerstam lends a keen, composerly ear to this startling score, delighting in the invention, the textural detail and colour as...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 12/1991
Walton's career as a conductor seems to me to fall into two phases. It was Sir Eugene Goossens, experienced in...
Reviewed in issue 9/1986
It is with the second book of Preludes that Livia Rev begins her recital, then plays Masques in the middle...
Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 5/1992
Only Act 3 of this performance seems to have been available before – and that on ‘unofficial’ labels. Now The...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 4/2005
As issues go nowadays, 41 minutes of music is a far from generous measure, but, as the tailoring maxim has...
Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 12/1992
Few composers have had the good fortune to be married to a performer of world class who has become a...
Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 10/1993
This is not the first CD to offer such a programme in recent years, but whether 70 minutes-worth of undiluted...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 12/2005
For an opera considerably off the beaten track, Platée has done rather well on disc. The recording of a famous...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 7/2004
'Another invaluable set that puts pianophiles in APR’s debt once more'
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Mark Pullinger leafs through an idiosyncratic selection from Erato’s Bizet back catalogue
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