Review - French School Pianists Play French Concertos
'Another invaluable set that puts pianophiles in APR’s debt once more'
The Russian-born, French-adopted pianist, Valery Afanassiev, is difficult to assess. While able to make his piano 'speak' in many different...
Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 8/1994
The most famous record comes first; the best comes last. This (the best) is from Wolf-Ferrari's Sly, an opera which...
Reviewed in issue 12/1986
London audiences are lucky to have the Skampa Quartet as a more-or-less permanent fixture, primarily at the Wigmore Hall where...
Reviewed in issue 8/1999
There has been a lot of CPE Bach around just lately, but this 2000 recording, reissued in Harmonia Mundi’s anniversary...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 7/2008
Harmonia Mundi's disc (recorded 10 years ago) came as a revelation to many who, as Lionel Salter predicted in his...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 3/2007
Readers are most likely to have come across this Bulgarian soprano before in A Life for the Tsar under Tchakarov...
Reviewed in issue 12/1995
For his sixty-fifth birthday Philips present Alfred Brendel – the finest scholar-pianist of our time – with a 25-disc tribute...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 2/1996
As Langlais was organist at St Clotilde and Pierre Cogen is his immediate successor in that post, this seems a...
Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 3/1991
Meet the octavists. These are the sub-basses of the Russian choirs, the originators of what at first you think is...
Reviewed in issue 10/1999
Sapho was Gounod's first opera, composed in 1850 at the behest of Pauline Viardot, who took the title-role when it...
Reviewed by Patrick O'Connor in issue: 7/1994
'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...
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