Review - French School Pianists Play French Concertos
'Another invaluable set that puts pianophiles in APR’s debt once more'
Over the past dozen years or so, Christian Tetzlaff has made a number of outstanding recordings for Virgin Classics, and...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 4/2003
Maurizio Pollini has yet to attain the expertise of conductor/pianists such as Edwin Fischer, Daniel Barenboim, Leonard Bernstein, Mikhail Pletnev,...
Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 8/2008
Although Earl Wild recorded his own Gershwin transcriptions incomparably, that hasn’t stopped other pianists from taking a crack at them...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 1/2011
Comparison is always instructive, and one thing to emerge clearly from this new record is how much finer Schutz is...
Reviewed by Iain Fenlon in issue: 3/1987
Hermann Baumann is a horn player of skill and sensitivity. He contributes a helpful article in the CD booklet reminding...
Reviewed in issue 5/1985
North and central German seventeenth-century Advent and Christmas music has long had a special place in my affections; and it...
Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 5/1994
''Was der Liebe wehe tut''—what causes pain to the lover, the last line of Brahms's Op. 57 No. 2—might almost...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 5/1988
It is good to have Pinchas Zukerman returning to the Beethoven Violin Concerto. It was in the late 1970s that...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 11/1992
It was an excellent idea to record Wexford’s 1994 production of The Demon, Rubinstein’s most popular opera (it was given...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 3/1996
Unlike his friend and contemporary‚ Sibelius‚ Stenhammar produced most of his incidental music in the last decade of his life....
Reviewed in issue 13/2002
'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...
‘Yudina really was a “symbol of nonconformism” among Soviet musicians, dressed like a nun and in the...
‘With Karajan controlling everything, would Large cave in and take what amounted to a secretarial...
Mark Pullinger leafs through an idiosyncratic selection from Erato’s Bizet back catalogue
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