Review - Paavo Järvi : The Complete Erato Recordings
Andrew Mellor revisits recordings the prolific Estonian conductor made originally for Virgin
“I think of it as one of the greatest symphonic poems” said Harnoncourt of Die schone Melusine in an interview...
Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 5/1996
Dedicated to that great British violinist Albert Sammons‚ the first of Bantock’s three violin sonatas was penned in 192829 and...
Reviewed in issue 10/2002
Enthusiasts in the know have long waxed lyrical about Kyrill Kondrashin’s blistering 1963 recording of Rachmaninov’s swansong and now it’s...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 9/2006
The obscure connection between the works on this disc comes from Herbert Fryer, who studied with Busoni, and was in...
Reviewed by Tim Parry in issue: 11/2000
After 1741 Handel never again wrote or performed operas in London, but during the mid-1740s he created these two unstaged...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 12/2008
Prokofiev’s piano concertos still retain their aura of scandal, their whiff of grapeshot fired by one musical faction at another....
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 9/1996
Twenty years ago Shostakovich quartet recordings came as integral sets or further accounts of the ubiquitous Eighth, so the dissemination...
Reviewed by kYlzrO1BaC7A in issue: 8/2006
Notwithstanding Richard Osborne’s less than enthusiastic words in the September issue, Michael Gielen’s 1993 recording of Mahler’s Seventh is generally...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 1/2003
Reger’s monumentally demanding series of chorale fantasias is surely the towering crown of late-Romantic German organ music. With their writhingly...
Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 1/2011
Craig Sheppard’s Beethoven piano sonata cycle was given in Seattle’s Meany Theatre during 2003-04. Entitled ‘Beethoven: A Journey’, the sonatas...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 6/2006
Andrew Mellor revisits recordings the prolific Estonian conductor made originally for Virgin
Lindsay Kemp welcomes a box of Baroque delights from the American conductor
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The tabletop ‘music centre’ may be just a distant memory, but where do you start when you want to...
Tim Parry explores the legacy of Jorge Bolet’s Decca recordings
Rob Cowan on collections devoted to two pianists, a cellist and a composer
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