Review - French School Pianists Play French Concertos
'Another invaluable set that puts pianophiles in APR’s debt once more'
Here is another disc – the last‚ alas! – in the Boyce series from Graham LeaCox. Those who like Boyce’s...
Reviewed in issue 2/2002
This version of Peter and the Wolf, like most these days, has a different narrator superimposed, depending on the country...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 2/1985
The supremacy of Haydn and Mozart has always cast a shadow over the other Viennese composers of their time. In...
Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 13/1998
Ever since Reinhard Goebel and Musica Antiqua Köln introduced us in 1986 to the glories of Bach’s ancestors – and...
Reviewed in issue 8/2002
The Cypriot-born pianist has spent much of 2006 celebrating Mozart’s 250th anniversary. These two discs form part of a continuing...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 11/2006
The first version of this opera was set to an Italian libretto, and Orpheus was sung by an alto castrato....
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 1/2005
This two-disc set (the complete solo piano works with the two concertos as a substantial bonus) certainly offers value for...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 10/1994
Dmitri Hvorostovsky is not new to popular song, having two earlier Delos anthologies to his credit (one of Russian romances,...
Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 4/2004
Schuricht has never been a name to conjure with, but as his performances emerge on CD his reputation has undergone...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 1/2007
These passionate and eloquent performances should certainly be heard by any admirer of the works in question, but I myself...
Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 4/1985
'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...
‘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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