Review - French School Pianists Play French Concertos
'Another invaluable set that puts pianophiles in APR’s debt once more'
The Uruguayan-born Homero Francesch has recorded all Mozart's sonatas as well as some of the later concertos. Here he is...
Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 2/1995
Any good choir with an interest in Baroque repertoire will be drawn to Dixit Dominus like a moth to the...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 4/2010
Here is yet another recording of Grieg's three violin sonatas, hot on the heels of those featuring Dumay and Pires,...
Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 10/1994
As CDs are not cheap, it's scarcely surprising that collectors want quantity as well as quality. So the Israel Trio...
Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 9/1986
Oh dear what can the matter be? is not one of the songs included here, but it is a question...
Reviewed in issue 8/1984
Dating (in their final form) from the 1730s, Bach’s half a dozen Sonate a 2 Clav & Pedal were designed...
Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 2/2010
Rossini overtures are difficult to bring off at the best of times, particularly when conductors and recording producers indiscriminately mix...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 6/1990
It was not until the 1970s that Eugen Jochum became a regular visitor to Britain. He established relationships first with...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 8/2006
Now in his early fifties, Thanos Mikroutsikos is evidently at the forefront of contemporary music in Greece. Previous EMI releases...
Reviewed in issue 7/2001
Schumann was not quite 28 when he wrote Kreisleriana at white heat in a mere four days. As he put...
Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 4/1992
'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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