Review - French School Pianists Play French Concertos
'Another invaluable set that puts pianophiles in APR’s debt once more'
No single instrument, in the hands of a single player and without extraneous mechanical aid, is capable of a greater...
Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 11/1993
Almost two decades after Humphrey Carpenter’s controversial biography of Britten, opera directors have woken up to some of its revelations....
Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 9/2011
We don't think of Shostakovich as a ballet composer yet he wrote three between 1929 and 1935. Neglect is not...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 2/2007
Hu Kun's playing is full of poignant persuasion. When he finally lends his voice to the great tune at the...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 6/1992
Beginning his review of the original issue of this recording, on four LPs, Trevor Harvey wrote: ''There are those (not...
Reviewed by rgolding in issue: 3/1988
These four sets, issued by EMI to mark the 25th anniversary of Maria Callas’s death, are important historical documents on...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 11/2002
I once asked Andre Previn if there was any significance in his decision to use only strings and brass in...
Reviewed in issue 8/2001
Hyperion again! For sheer enterprise, a disc comprising nonets by Parry and Stanford takes some beating. It is aimed, presumably,...
Reviewed in issue 9/1989
As a 20th-century fable of disillusion, Mikhail Bulgakov’s novel The Master and Margarita has few peers. Its piercing insights into...
Reviewed by kYlzrO1BaC7A in issue: 1/2001
Tonz makes a persuasive showing in the once popular concerto, its delectable barcarolle elegantly phrased. He and Triendl take an...
Reviewed by kYlzrO1BaC7A in issue: 10/1998
'Another invaluable set that puts pianophiles in APR’s debt once more'
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