Review - Paavo Järvi : The Complete Erato Recordings
Andrew Mellor revisits recordings the prolific Estonian conductor made originally for Virgin
Now in his mid-thirties and a professor at the Paris Conservatoire, Florent Boffard is, on the evidence of this disc,...
Reviewed in issue 8/2001
This second volume of Marco Polo’s Ziehrer series has a major plus in Michael Dittrich’s ever lively and imaginative conducting....
Reviewed by Andrew Lamb in issue: 12/1998
This is the first volume of Beethoven's complete works for cello and fortepiano, works which were, in turn, the first...
Reviewed by hfinch in issue: 11/1995
The nickname “Flash Harry” may have stuck but there’s absolutely nothing showy about Sargent’s 1963 Proms account of Vaughan Williams’s...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 10/2008
Appearing soon after the success of his elaboration of the sketches for Elgar’s Symphony No. 3 (NMC, 3/98), this disc...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 11/1998
The rich quality of this CD admirably conveys the sound of the VPO one remembers so well; that warm string...
Reviewed in issue 6/1985
The Venice Baroque Orchestra have already made friends with their vigorous and colourful Vivaldi. Bach is, of course, quite a...
Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 12/2002
The transfers are fine, the records themselves delightful as ever. Perhaps that (about the records) does not need saying: how...
Reviewed in issue 6/1991
Though this version of The Nutcracker was recorded in the same venue as the parallel recording of Swan Lake (see...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 12/1989
Castor et Pollux was Rameau's second tragedie en musique. Its first performance took place in October 1737 but, though the...
Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 7/1993
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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