Review - French School Pianists Play French Concertos
'Another invaluable set that puts pianophiles in APR’s debt once more'
Cards on the table straight away. The more I hear of trumpet and organ the more unsatisfactory and uninspiring I...
Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 12/1992
I expressed reservations about Joseph Nolan’s debut CD (1/03), both from the playing and programming points of view. This disc...
Reviewed by Christopher Nickol in issue: 3/2005
Try the first 25 seconds of this CD on a musical friend and ask that friend who the composer is,...
Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 11/1990
This is one of the finest issues of piano music by Busoni that I have heard since Geoffrey Douglas Madge's...
Reviewed by Michael Stewart in issue: 11/1994
Please turn the clock back 37 years! How one would love to have been present at this memorable evening. By...
Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 12/2002
The Iceland Symphony Orchestra made their American debut on record many years ago, but UK collectors have only been able...
Reviewed in issue 8/1992
Haitink, mainly with the Concertgebouw, has shown himself a deeply sympathetic conductor of French impressionist music, and here he directs...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 8/1990
First, the bottom line: this is an inestimably important cello release, one that no aficionado of great string playing can...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 11/2002
There are, at my last count, some 16 different CDs of the Mozart horn concertos and standards are high. They...
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 11/1988
Pygmalion is, perhaps, Rameau's most consistently alluring acte de ballet whose overture, at least, was greatly admired in the composer's...
Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 7/1992
'Another invaluable set that puts pianophiles in APR’s debt once more'
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