Review - French School Pianists Play French Concertos
'Another invaluable set that puts pianophiles in APR’s debt once more'
Malcolm Arnold is the master of what might be described as the 'quarter-hour concerto'. Neo-classical in scale and aim, the...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 8/1989
You will need to wait the best part of three quarters of an hour before getting to the heart of...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 13/2010
Gnarled and cynical old opera-goers were known to wobble like jellies after the BBC showed a video of the La...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 1/1984
The sleeve-note does not divulge Julia Cload's nationality, but as the record was produced in England by the late Hans...
Reviewed in issue 9/1986
This generously packed CD pays eloquent tribute to Tamás Vásáry’s early celebrity and a furore partly launched by Liszt recordings...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 9/2003
An all-Eccard CD is long overdue since his music is woefully under-represented in the catalogue. This recording (released to mark...
Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 9/2011
The Sawallisch reissue sounds every bit as fine as I remember it, and the CD transfer does it full justice....
Reviewed by Stephen Johnson in issue: 9/1990
Vasily Kalinnikov was an impoverished Moscow composer who died at the turn of the century while still in his mid-thirties,...
Reviewed in issue 3/1998
Two of these three works (the Divertimento and the Harmonica Quintet) were once available on an Argo LP (nla); once...
Reviewed in issue 10/1990
Like those of Curlew River and The Burning Fiery Furnace, this is another transfer to CD for which I have...
Reviewed in issue 9/1990
'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...
Mark Pullinger leafs through an idiosyncratic selection from Erato’s Bizet back catalogue
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