Review - French School Pianists Play French Concertos
'Another invaluable set that puts pianophiles in APR’s debt once more'
After finishing work on Le vin herbe in 1942, Martin cast around for a text to serve as the basis...
Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 10/1988
With so many piano recitals by the talented and the also-ran finding their way on to the market these days,...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 12/2004
What a difference a recital record makes to a singer's identity. Carolyn Watkinson has for several years now played a...
Reviewed by jswain in issue: 8/1983
This was Abbado's first recording with the company of La Scala after he had taken over as Music Director, and...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 2/1985
Monteverdi's last and finest opera, L'incoronazione di Poppea, continues both to puzzle and fascinate. The story itself, familiar from the...
Reviewed by Iain Fenlon in issue: 5/1990
Disappointment that this recording uses the version of the Requiem with organ-only accompaniment (with the addition in the “Pie Jesu”...
Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 8/2009
Telemann's ''Paris Quartets'' are confusing to sort out. In about 1730 he published in Hamburg six Quadri for flute, violin,...
Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 3/1989
Medeamaterial was designed to form a double bill with Purcell's Dido and Aeneas—or even, more specifically, with that opera's culminating...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 6/1993
Cellists like to get together to form multi-cello ensembles; in making a disc in which he’s the sole performer, Matthew...
Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 13/2003
The release schedule of Albion Records (the recording arm of the RVW Society) shows no sign of slackening, and although...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 4/2009
'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...
‘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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