Review - Paavo Järvi : The Complete Erato Recordings
Andrew Mellor revisits recordings the prolific Estonian conductor made originally for Virgin
Shortly after an outstanding release of the Piano Quintets from Naxos (9/09) comes another, superfine in sound and balance, from...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 5/2010
The problem with Roussel is that he is at least as un-French as he is French. An audience vaguely expecting...
Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 4/1986
These pioneer recordings have been unobtainable for several years, and they make a welcome addition to the CD catalogue. No...
Reviewed in issue 9/1989
It’s a brave, or foolhardy, composer who sets about re-orchestrating Debussy. Yet that is what John Adams has done, in...
Reviewed by Patrick O'Connor in issue: 6/2005
The Arditti Quartet have a voracious appetite for twentieth-century music—the more complex and challenging the better. Alongside Carter or Ferneyhough,...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 3/1990
Rózsa’s list of concert works (those bearing opus numbers) amounts to under half his 95 film scores. Although Rózsa maintained...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 11/2008
Beethoven was not responsible for the popular subtitle of his C sharp minor Sonata, and to suggest that a pianist...
Reviewed in issue 4/1992
Bach’s instrumental music seems happily responsive to the evolving ideas of single interpreters: witness Wolfgang Rubsam, who significantly revised his...
Reviewed in issue 6/1998
Ageing hippies will recall John Tavener's The Whale with fond affection. I never owned the 1970 LP myself, but knew...
Reviewed in issue 6/1993
One of musicology’s most exciting achievements in recent years is the transcription of the earliest polyphony. The oldest manuscripts were...
Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 12/1996
Andrew Mellor revisits recordings the prolific Estonian conductor made originally for Virgin
Lindsay Kemp welcomes a box of Baroque delights from the American conductor
'This is a treasure trove of information, thoroughly recommended'
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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