Review - French School Pianists Play French Concertos
'Another invaluable set that puts pianophiles in APR’s debt once more'
It’s the Cinderella fable’s turn to be given a 1990s make-over. Though the film’s look is in keeping with the...
Reviewed in issue 12/1998
I have always found most moving the set of five Improvisations that Elgar recorded at the piano in 1929, straight...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 11/2003
The long gestation of Road Show – formally Wise Guys, Gold and Bounce (which was also recorded by Nonesuch/PS...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 10/2009
This is a recital sombre in mood, Glinka’s splendid ‘Travelling Song’ being virtually the only piece of merriment. Alexander Blok,...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: /2000
A quick glance at this disc and most readers familiar with recent trends in Bach performance will assume that what...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 3/2010
Saint-Saens was a fine pianist himself, and the five concertos he wrote for his instrument between 1858 and 1896 are...
Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 5/1990
The cover blurb claims that although “Schütz would never have heard his music performed by forces such as these and...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 7/2008
The early-1940s were the high noon of Traubel’s career. Brought in first as an American counterpart to Flagstad at the...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 5/1997
Kullervo had to wait until 1958 for its performance in modern times when it was conducted by Sibelius's son-in-law, the...
Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 4/1986
Aníbal Cetrangolo is not only the director of the Ensemble Albalonga‚ he is also an expert on the Italian composer...
Reviewed in issue 9/2002
'Another invaluable set that puts pianophiles in APR’s debt once more'
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