Review - French School Pianists Play French Concertos
'Another invaluable set that puts pianophiles in APR’s debt once more'
Despite its rehabilitation in the 20th century, the recorder has still to establish itself as a contemporary instrument, though its...
Reviewed by Richard_Whitehouse in issue: 6/2008
Stanford was undoubtedly one of music's great teachers: I was brought up in no doubt about this, two of my...
Reviewed in issue 5/1987
Those weaned on Purcell’s great Fantasias of 1680, with their superlative juxtaposing of archaic longings and innovative yearnings, might all...
Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 4/1996
It is perhaps inevitable that in today’s crowded CD market-place some artists never quite achieve the catalogue recognition they deserve....
Reviewed in issue 8/1997
When Handel was in Rome during 1707, he was, it seems, invited by one of his aristocratic patrons to compose...
Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 6/1989
Elly Ameling is too charming an artist and, in particular, too experienced a singer of Brahms for her not to...
Reviewed in issue 6/1991
This is a set that had somehow escaped my notice until now. Becoming acquainted with it proved a pleasurable experience....
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 8/1990
Appearances suggest a more expensive product: the box encloses a glossy, silver-imprinted booklet with copious notes in English on the...
Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 3/1995
You wouldn’t believe it, but while the booklet offers us a detailed curriculum vitae of the conductor here (who in...
Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 8/1996
The music of Camillo Alphonzo Johannes Peter Carlsen (1876-1948) will appeal to devotees of French rather than German organ repertoire,...
Reviewed in issue 2/1999
'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...
‘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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