Review - French School Pianists Play French Concertos
'Another invaluable set that puts pianophiles in APR’s debt once more'
There is a profusion of collections of trumpet concertos currently available by a number of virtuosos, including Maurice Andre and,...
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 4/1989
Both David Zinman and Daniel Barenboim have recorded Schumann’s symphonies before, Barenboim in Chicago in the late 1970s, Zinman in...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 5/2004
It is to be expected that an artist who has made one of the outstanding recordings of the Liszt concertos...
Reviewed in issue 10/1991
Hot on the heels of Peter Neumann’s recent version (MDG, 1/09), here is a live recording of Joshua made at...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 8/2009
Here is a difficult one, the difficulty lying in the ease, and (since we are dealing in paradoxes) that being...
Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 7/2008
It was as a Mozart player of uncommon finesse and sensibility that Mitsuko Uchida first made her mark. And it...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 8/1999
A year or so ago I chanced upon a CD on the French Assai label featuring Josef Rheinberger’s two-piano version...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 2/2003
The rule now seems that all the finest versions of the Beethoven Violin Concerto are being recorded live, not least...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 12/1993
This is the third recording of Khovanshchina to have appeared in recent years, and all three of them use in...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 6/1992
With two organs available, at opposite ends of a long nave, a total of 214 ranks (including, we are told,...
Reviewed in issue 10/1984
'Another invaluable set that puts pianophiles in APR’s debt once more'
New releases celebrate iconic recordings, fresh discoveries and musical adventures across the...
WiiM Ultra/VibeLink Amp: an ultra-compact take on the ‘just add speakers’ system, this affordable...
‘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...
Mark Pullinger leafs through an idiosyncratic selection from Erato’s Bizet back catalogue
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