Review - French School Pianists Play French Concertos
'Another invaluable set that puts pianophiles in APR’s debt once more'
I first got to know and love a selection of Delalande's Sinfonies pour les soupers du Roi through recordings issued...
Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 7/1991
Libor Pesek’s latest Slavonic excursion with the RLPO for Virgin Classics will surely win many new friends for the music...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 6/1997
Catfish Row, Gershwin's own suite from Porgy and Bess, is the news here. First performend in 1936, this was forgotten...
Reviewed in issue 10/1984
Volume 6 of this series (A/01) was a Gramophone Award nominee this year and I see no possible reason why...
Reviewed by kYlzrO1BaC7A in issue: 13/2001
All the items in this recording are familiar but the manner of their presentation is not. While it is virtually...
Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 8/2003
This well-filled CD of relatively early works by Andrzej Panufnik will be of special interest to anyone curious about what...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 4/1989
Fifty-five years separate Elliott Carter’s Piano Sonata (1945-46) from the brief Retrouvailles, written in 2000 for Boulez’s 75th birthday. Soon...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 8/2003
On this showing, the Saito Kinen Orchestra can rank with the world’s finest. Quite aside from their purely technical attributes...
Reviewed in issue 6/1998
When asked if he had known the members of Les Six, Ned Rorem replied, ‘Yes, I knew all five of...
Reviewed by po'connor in issue: 1/2003
Ensemble Zefiro, a period instrument group, give careful, attentive readings of Mozart’s two big octet serenades. In each case the...
Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 3/1997
'Another invaluable set that puts pianophiles in APR’s debt once more'
New releases celebrate iconic recordings, fresh discoveries and musical adventures across the...
WiiM Ultra/VibeLink Amp: an ultra-compact take on the ‘just add speakers’ system, this affordable...
‘Yudina really was a “symbol of nonconformism” among Soviet musicians, dressed like a nun and in the...
‘With Karajan controlling everything, would Large cave in and take what amounted to a secretarial...
Mark Pullinger leafs through an idiosyncratic selection from Erato’s Bizet back catalogue
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