Review - Paavo Järvi : The Complete Erato Recordings
Andrew Mellor revisits recordings the prolific Estonian conductor made originally for Virgin
These are the songs of Pfitzner's high maturity (his great opera Palestrina was written between Op 24 and Op 26)...
Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 2/2000
Nowadays there is not much doubt of Stenhammar's standing as the finest Swedish composer after Berwald, though I have to...
Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 5/1994
Conductors’ musical compositions usually reflect, more or less, the particular bias of their creators’ standard-repertory interpretations: Furtwangler’s unfold in huge,...
Reviewed in issue 12/1997
If Sergei Lyapunov is remembered at all nowadays, it is probably for his Transcendental Studies, consciously modelled on those of...
Reviewed in issue 11/1993
These four Ascension Day cantatas span 10 years of Bach’s life in Leipzig, from No 37, first performed in May...
Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 8/2000
I was far from impressed with Andre Watts's recent studio recordings of Beethoven sonatas (EMI (D CDC7 49264-2, 9/88) but...
Reviewed in issue 6/1989
There is no such thing as a perfect world. Take these three versions of the Lark Quartet. All have attributes...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 7/1989
Armstrong Gibbs’s Peacock Pie gives this most attractive collection its title‚ drawn‚ like the composer’s inspiration‚ from Walter de la...
Reviewed in issue 6/2002
David McVicar’s 2005 staging, being revived this summer, provoked a deal of contrasting views among the critical fraternity but was...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 7/2006
It’s always a joy when a disc stops you in your tracks as though you were hearing the music for...
Reviewed in issue 8/1998
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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