Review - French School Pianists Play French Concertos
'Another invaluable set that puts pianophiles in APR’s debt once more'
For a composer of Berio's stature to spend valuable time between 1979 and 1983 on writing a series of 34...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 5/1994
This DVD of an Italian television recital opens with the camera panning across a packed audience awaiting the sight and...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 2/2006
“Carl’s War” brings together five of Carl Davis’s television scores, newly recorded, with settings linked to the Second World War....
Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 3/2011
This CD seems to have been planned to cater for two categories of Liszt lovers—the first three pieces are out-and-out...
Reviewed by James Methuen-Campbell in issue: 6/1988
Once the Cinderella among Mahler symphonies, the Seventh is now so popular that just about every interpretative tendency, past and...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 1/2000
Alan Opie has been a stalwart of the English opera scene for more than 30 years, most notably at ENO....
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 1/2004
Tapestry was formed about ten years ago, after its members had performed (of course) Schubert's The Shepherd on the Rock...
Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 12/1995
Anyone who can give such a hauntingly beautiful account of the vocal version of Fibich's Poeme as does Novotna...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 4/1993
Though not a newcomer to the British catalogue‚ Anne Gastinel is less known here than in her native France‚ where‚...
Reviewed in issue 2/2002
A diverting, hour-long programme which shows off the talents of The Fibonacci Sequence’s harpist, Gillian Tingay. Aficionados will relish her...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 12/2004
'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...
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