Review - French School Pianists Play French Concertos
'Another invaluable set that puts pianophiles in APR’s debt once more'
Among the most high-profile of post-war Austrian composers, H(einz) K(arl) Gruber has enjoyed limited UK exposure - notably Simon Rattle's...
Reviewed by kYlzrO1BaC7A in issue: 1/2007
The area of Bach organ recordings is terribly overcrowded these days, with strong ‘complete’ editions from Bowyer, Herrick, Koopman et...
Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 6/2004
Neither Eric Sams’s The Songs of Hugo Wolf (Methuen: 1961) nor The New Grove (2001) tell of a work called...
Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 1/2003
The title ‘Amusement’ for the first of the four works on this disc could not be more apt. This is...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 7/2004
It was Rostropovich's idea to invite 12 composers to contribute to a seventieth birthday gift for the uminent Swiss conductor...
Reviewed in issue 8/1995
With Vol. 5 of his Schubert sonatas, Andras Schiff reaches the great D959 in A major, and shows himself to...
Reviewed by hfinch in issue: 1/1995
Divertimenti are a young and very able quartet who have launched themselves on records with these performances of little-known works...
Reviewed in issue 6/1986
Thanks are due to Sequentia for bringing to life something quite unique. The Bordesholm Marienklange is a late (1475-6) medieval...
Reviewed by mberry in issue: 12/1993
Igor Oistrakh’s 1963 studio recording of Mozart’s noble E flat Sinfonia concertante with his father David on viola was one...
Reviewed in issue 9/2002
Whereas Morales’s Masses have increasingly found favour with recording ensembles, his motets have not fared quite so well up to...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 7/2005
'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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