Review - French School Pianists Play French Concertos
'Another invaluable set that puts pianophiles in APR’s debt once more'
Hard on the heels of huge multi-CD special editions dedicated to Bach, Mozart, Vivaldi, Karajan and Bernstein comes yet another...
Reviewed in issue 5/1991
The Swiss-based company of Jecklin may be unfamiliar to many readers in Britain. They mainly specialize in repertoire that is...
Reviewed in issue 9/1986
Duphly's music belongs to the final stage of the French harpsichord school. Between 1744 and 1768 he published four volumes...
Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 2/1987
You needn’t reproach yourself for not knowing Marcello’s Op 3. No published copy exists – nor is there any certainty...
Reviewed in issue 10/2001
For a symphony that might still be said to represent, in RL’s phrase, “a lowering of the symphonic sights”, the...
Reviewed in issue 3/1998
Numerous recordings of Vivaldi’s church music invent a hypothetical Vespers context. The newest such flight of liturgical fancy conducted by...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 8/2011
Isabelle van Keulen’s sense of poetry and warm tone are shown to good advantage in the first of Clara Schumann’s...
Reviewed in issue 5/1999
It’s somewhat ironic that the most convincing modern interpretation of Gerontius should come to us in video form. This performance,...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 2/1999
Many collectors may feel that they already have more than enough choice of performances of Mozart's piano concertos by some...
Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 11/1993
For his third – and, presumably, final –instalment of Martinu’s compete piano works, Giorgio Koukl has collected the cream of...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 13/2007
'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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