Review - French School Pianists Play French Concertos
'Another invaluable set that puts pianophiles in APR’s debt once more'
Hans Keller’s obituary description of Furtwängler – ‘a composer who conducted instead’ – has always struck me as being faintly...
Reviewed in issue 9/2002
It was high time that Dutilleux's two concertos were brought together on disc, and Decca have assembled an excellent team...
Reviewed in issue 3/1995
Ciconia stands as the key composer of the years around 1400, so it is odd that there have been so...
Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 10/1998
The number of socalled ‘lute works’ by Bach is small and they have been recorded many times. Lutenists have begun...
Reviewed in issue 9/2002
Immersing oneself in Szymanowski's piano music is an exhilarating and exhausting experience. And it takes a pianist of Sinae Lee's...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 1/2007
Two recitals with very different approaches to building a programme for solo violin. Viviane Hagner’s is the more conventional, placing...
Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 5/2007
Schnittke’s Fourth is his ecumenical symphony. Its material is abstracted from Catholic, Orthodox, Lutheran and Jewish chant and is used...
Reviewed in issue 7/1996
Modified rapture is my response to this new addition to the Hyperion Schubert edition. Make no mistake, the rapture is...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 2/1993
In view of the remarks I'm about to make, it's worth pointing out that the Berlin Philharmonia Ensemble, one of...
Reviewed by hfinch in issue: 10/1994
The more I hear of Patrick Hadley’s music, the more I warm to it. There are numerous pages in the...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 10/1999
'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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