Review - French School Pianists Play French Concertos
'Another invaluable set that puts pianophiles in APR’s debt once more'
The appearance of this disc was well timed to mark the eightieth birthday on April 18th of Jean Fournet who,...
Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 6/1993
Listening to the Octet and Rondino, both of which date from 1792, I was continually struck by how much mature...
Reviewed by mtaylor in issue: 2/2000
This was a memorial concert for Herbert von Karajan, and true to his spirit, a large-scale ‘traditional’ performance, both in...
Reviewed by mscott rohan in issue: 8/2000
In some respects, this is the ultimate CD bargain: a single concerto recording that can be reprogrammed to incorporate any...
Reviewed in issue 6/1996
Were it not for the continued activity of his former teacher, Vagn Holmboe, Per Norgard (who celebrates his sixtieth birthday...
Reviewed in issue 11/1992
The Venezuelan pianist Clara Rodriguez (who studied at the Royal College of Music and is now Artistic Director of the...
Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 4/1996
In celebration of the centenary of Roberto Gerhard’s birth, Auvidis have already brought out his Pedrelliana and Don Quixote (10/92)...
Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 11/1996
The second of these CDs contains two classic performances – a Scriabin Fifth Sonata which fuses white-hot intensity with consummate...
Reviewed in issue 12/1995
This French recording (on CDs manufactured in France) by Pathe Marconi took place a couple of years ago in La...
Reviewed in issue 9/1986
Roussel's Second Symphony is rarely heard in the concert hall: and though it does occasionally feature in the programme of...
Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 6/1987
'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...
Mark Pullinger leafs through an idiosyncratic selection from Erato’s Bizet back catalogue
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