Review - French School Pianists Play French Concertos
'Another invaluable set that puts pianophiles in APR’s debt once more'
It seems questionable to combine a 1946 performance of the Franck Symphony's first movment with a 1940 account of the...
Reviewed in issue 11/1992
Twentieth-century French flute music is an almost inexhaustible field and one which, to be frank, contains more than the occasional...
Reviewed by rnichols in issue: 11/2003
Although the music may be little known, this is a most attractive CD from a highly talented group of young...
Reviewed in issue 7/1992
''A warm heart, I can assure you, beats in the little bodies of my younger children of the south who,...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 11/1992
Thomas Stoltzer is one of a generation of German composers who followed in the footsteps of the Josquin/Isaac generation. The...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 2/1996
Once one has called to mind the fact that, in spite of the fragment of an ikon of the Archangel...
Reviewed in issue 4/1993
This set has to be listened to with the ear of faith, but that faith will be amply rewarded. Here...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 1/1990
As this curious collection of transcribed string concertos confirms, Nakariakov is fast becoming the Volodos of the trumpet; however natural...
Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 7/1999
When these recordings first appeared (differently coupled: K488 with K467 in C, K595 with K271 in E flat) it was...
Reviewed by rgolding in issue: 5/1985
The French composer and music critic, Paul Le Flem, died in 1984 at the amazing age of 103, and although...
Reviewed in issue 12/1994
'Another invaluable set that puts pianophiles in APR’s debt once more'
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‘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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