Review - French School Pianists Play French Concertos
'Another invaluable set that puts pianophiles in APR’s debt once more'
Hummel and Moscheles make an apt pair: each was a keyboard virtuoso who wrote prolifically. Yet where Hummel has been...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 7/2006
You may not yet have heard of Riccardo Minasi and there’s a pretty good chance you won’t have heard of...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 3/2011
The extra analytical quality of CD makes the disappointing Los Angeles sound a little more agreeable than it was on...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 10/1984
This disc is a pretty safe recommendation for a basic Respighi collection. Gardelli and the LSO have a fine time...
Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 2/1997
At budget price, this is an ideal way to explore Ives’s piano output, the workshop from which many of his...
Reviewed by kYlzrO1BaC7A in issue: 8/1999
Rameau published his Pieces de clavecin en concerts in 1741. Although he went to some pains to demonstrate that they...
Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 9/1992
Claudio Abbado is arguably the most distinguished exponent of Mahler’s Ninth currently before the public. Less than maximally emotive but...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 3/2005
It is hardly surprising, given their quality and compelling nature, that record companies have so far focused on James MacMillan’s...
Reviewed in issue 6/2001
It was presumably the repertoire that excluded Paul Robeson from ''The Record of Singing''. It surely could not have been...
Reviewed in issue 10/1989
God as depicted in Nature is the main theme of this absorbing recital, the fifth in the fast-growing Hyperion Schubert...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 2/1990
'Another invaluable set that puts pianophiles in APR’s debt once more'
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Mark Pullinger leafs through an idiosyncratic selection from Erato’s Bizet back catalogue
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