Review - French School Pianists Play French Concertos
'Another invaluable set that puts pianophiles in APR’s debt once more'
No sooner had the Hawthorne Quartet's marvellous Decca coupling of Krasa and Haas (3/94) sent me back to their pioneering...
Reviewed in issue 8/1994
Anyone who has enjoyed the popular carol Torches or the lovely There is no rose must have wondered what else...
Reviewed in issue 11/1988
What a grievous loss to British music was William Hurlstone's early demise (a 30-year-old victim of bronchial asthma); happily, this...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 4/1993
Three very different minds grappling with the intricacies of four-way musical dialogue. Takemitsu, a habitual aesthete wandering in the thick...
Reviewed in issue 2/1994
Were it not that the tenth anniversary of Khachaturian's death is approaching, and that anniversaries provide apparently irresistible pegs for...
Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 11/1987
Rykodisc’s series of vintage soundtracks has been blossoming over the past few months, and here The Misfits (1961) provides further...
Reviewed in issue 12/1998
Those who have criticized James Galway for his choice of repertory should take note of this unusual and attractive Czech...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 1/1989
This is a disc to investigate for the light that it sheds on Schubertian byways and for the thoughtful and...
Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 7/1993
This anthology strikes a blow for progress. Most musicians, pressed to nominate a Golden Age of English church music, would,...
Reviewed in issue 11/1991
Of all the really popular composers, Grieg is perhaps the one whose reputation most rests on a very small proportion...
Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 2/1991
'Another invaluable set that puts pianophiles in APR’s debt once more'
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