Review - French School Pianists Play French Concertos
'Another invaluable set that puts pianophiles in APR’s debt once more'
This collection will appeal to readers caught up in the resurgence of interest in the work of the post-Janacek Czech-German...
Reviewed in issue 13/1997
In voice, looks, personality and intelligence, Eberhard Waechter was among the most gifted men of his age. He was loved...
Reviewed in issue 11/1999
Riccardo Chailly’s Varèse edition set new standards for the performance of this singular composer. These new discs survey most of...
Reviewed in issue 9/2001
The centrepiece of this programme is the Fantasia in D minor of Sor. The absence of an opus number is...
Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 4/1995
His Third Symphony it may have been, but in 1888/90 Glazunov was only in his early twenties and still in...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 7/2003
Kubelik's recording of Mahler's Eighth Symphony did not receive too many accolades when it first appeared on LP in 1971....
Reviewed in issue 2/1987
Recorded in Cologne in July 2003 by German Radio, this issue offers a first-rate period performance of Haydn’s masterpiece, lively...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 6/2005
When a singer as remarkable as this establishes himself as more than a seven-day—indeed a tenyear wonder, even the most...
Reviewed in issue 12/1989
After the recent unexpected profusion of period-instrument recordings of the Bach sonatas for violin and obbligato keyboard, initial reaction to...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 12/1997
Thomas Adès’s “ism”-defying output gains in variety all the time, but whatever he comes up with in the future it...
Reviewed by John Allison in issue: 8/2009
'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...
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