Review - French School Pianists Play French Concertos
'Another invaluable set that puts pianophiles in APR’s debt once more'
In his useful little book on Cherubini (Oxford: 1965), Basil Deane claims that ''in no other aspect of his work...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 5/1990
The first thing that struck me in this performance of K450 is the deliberate tempo of the first movement; and...
Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 11/1987
The two sonatas coupled on this recording present a striking contrast between the somewhat carefree lyricism of the A major...
Reviewed in issue 4/1994
This is a well-chosen programme of sonatas by Biber and Muffat. Biber is represented by four pieces from his 1676...
Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 10/1994
More honoured in the histories of music than in the hearing, Satie's Socrate is truer to his description of it...
Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 12/1994
Bernhard Crusell was regarded as the outstanding clarinet composer/virtuoso of his time (the turn of the 18th century into the...
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 4/2009
Martinu's two violin concertos have very different histories. The First was created for Dushkin in 1931, much tinkered with over...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 13/2008
It was not too grievous a loss to music when in the 1760s Leopold Mozart decided to give up composition...
Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 2/2004
The Sonata, BWV1030, belongs to the transverse flute but its appropriation here is not simply a matter of filling a...
Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 8/1989
The Chiara triptych – the three recital programmes recorded by this admired lyric soprano in the 1970s – is assembled...
Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 3/2005
'Another invaluable set that puts pianophiles in APR’s debt once more'
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