Review - French School Pianists Play French Concertos
'Another invaluable set that puts pianophiles in APR’s debt once more'
Vox consists of six pieces composed over an eight year period. Like Wishart's Anticredos (1980), which I found ''extraordinarily diverse...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 3/1990
The repackaging by BIS in a slimline two-disc set of their Lahti orchestra cycle of all four Kokkonen symphonies, conducted...
Reviewed in issue 6/1997
The “big” news here is that Frank Beermann uses “the ‘Urtext’ of the new Schumann Symphony edition by Joachim Draheim”....
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 12/2010
Michael Berkeley's Clarinet Concerto, written for Emma Johnson in 1991, represents a new generation of this always-accessible composer's music. If...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 2/1994
Alla Francesca are a newly formed group of singers and instrumentalists, dedicated to the study and performance of early music...
Reviewed by mberry in issue: 12/1995
In 1839, Donizetti considerably altered his Lucia for Paris. For the rest of the 19th century, it was the regularly...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 3/2004
Though the Beaux Arts Trio bravely included the Piano Trio in A, Op. posth. in their Philips set of the...
Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 3/1992
The dynamics of the record industry may be changing but the obsession with Mahler remains constant. There are own-label Sixths...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 6/2008
Paul Lewis’s three-disc second volume of his Beethoven sonata cycle is of such eloquence and mastery (the one inseparable from...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 12/2006
It's good news that EMI have taken over the old Pye/Nixa catalogue and here is the first evidence of that...
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 2/1991
'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...
‘With Karajan controlling everything, would Large cave in and take what amounted to a secretarial...
‘Yudina really was a “symbol of nonconformism” among Soviet musicians, dressed like a nun and in the...
Mark Pullinger leafs through an idiosyncratic selection from Erato’s Bizet back catalogue
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