Review - French School Pianists Play French Concertos
'Another invaluable set that puts pianophiles in APR’s debt once more'
Special gratitude here, I think, for the very rarely heard G minor Quartet, Grieg's only complete work in the genre...
Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 3/1992
Whatever the rival claims of Dresden and Berlin, there is usually some special alchemy when the Vienna Philharmonic plays Richard...
Reviewed in issue 11/1993
As Nils Dittmer observes in his fulsome accompanying notes, Hakon Borresen (1876-1954) is one of a clutch of Danish late...
Reviewed in issue 2/1998
This fifth and final offering is a fitting close to the remarkable work for Decca of this superbly matched duo....
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 8/1996
All the items from the 1984 Ottawa programme have been previously issued on VHS. They catch Vickers, near the end...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 4/2003
Ralph Kirkpatrick regarded Charles Avison as ‘an excellent composer who is unjustly forgotten’. To the gramophile it certainly seems that...
Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 5/2003
Handel had already hinted at the prospect of the organ concerto with a spectacular movement in his early Italian oratorio...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 8/2005
Sir Clifford Curzon was a Decca artist for the whole of his recording career, but he was not a prolific...
Reviewed in issue 4/1990
No, the title is hardly an incentive to part with one’s pocket-money. But with Telemann we should know better than...
Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 5/1996
Giovanni Felice Sances (c1600-79), who is now virtually forgotten, was something of an international star in his own lifetime. Roman...
Reviewed by Iain Fenlon in issue: 6/2010
'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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