Review - French School Pianists Play French Concertos
'Another invaluable set that puts pianophiles in APR’s debt once more'
When it came to the musical swashing of bucklers there were few to equal, and none to surpass, my old...
Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 6/1996
The songs included here were written over a period of two dozen years between 1952 and 1976. The three Ben...
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 9/1992
The present disc is further proof of Naxos's impressive ability to produce outstanding recordings at an astonishingly low price. Jeno...
Reviewed in issue 4/1993
Soloist-conducted piano concertos can sometimes mean compromise, even chaos…but not in this case. Indeed, the playing of the Academy of...
Reviewed in issue 5/2001
An interesting inclusion in this new DG set is the only currently available version of Beethoven's transcription of his Op....
Reviewed in issue 11/1985
Once again we have a recital disc perfectly recommendable in itself but issued so closely after another with a very...
Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 4/2008
Richard Hickox presents the Eroica with an orchestra of the size Beethoven expected when he wrote it—about 35 players. This...
Reviewed in issue 4/1984
To judge by its representation in the catalogue the Berg, once thought so intractable, enjoys a popularity that outstrips even...
Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 7/1996
Technically undemanding piano miniatures, predominantly slow and lyrical, almost entirely homophonic, innocent of modulation and thematic development, and admittedly written...
Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 5/1992
Two more Mahler CDs to whet the appetite of even the non-specialist collector! The Fourth had a special place in...
Reviewed in issue 4/1999
'Another invaluable set that puts pianophiles in APR’s debt once more'
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‘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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