Review - Paavo Järvi : The Complete Erato Recordings
Andrew Mellor revisits recordings the prolific Estonian conductor made originally for Virgin
Segovia once described Sor as “garrulous”, a label better suited to Giuliani, of whose more copious output he recorded very...
Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 1/1998
Two sonatas in A major—and why not, when they are both masterpieces? The slow unaccompanied opening of the Kreutzer already...
Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 5/1992
The difference in timing fairly leaps off the page—20 minutes! It's partly explained by the Tatrai's omission of the exposition...
Reviewed by Stephen Johnson in issue: 1/1990
Górecki’s Third String Quartet has waited for more than 10 years to be recorded. It was requested in 1992 by...
Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 6/2007
Gleaned from recording sessions spanning six years between 1995 and 2001, the work of Johann Friederich Fasch (1688-1758) represents the...
Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 11/2002
Tchaikovsky's most recent and scholarly biographer, David Brown (Tchaikovsky—The crisis years, 1874-1878; Gollancz: 1982), states bluntly that the Piano Sonata...
Reviewed by rgolding in issue: 2/1988
For most of the Nazi period, Karl Bohm was based in Dresden where his apparent political acceptability enabled him to...
Reviewed in issue 9/1996
3 Leg Torso’s line-up gives them the flexibility to incorporate a range of gipsy and kletzmer references into some evocative...
Reviewed by kYlzrO1BaC7A in issue: 9/1998
Let me start by declaring an interest: I have been an admirer of the Lindsay Quartet since long before I...
Reviewed in issue 1/1993
Gidon Kremer, instead of coupling the Shostakovich Second Concerto with its natural partner, No. 1, enterprisingly chooses a concerto which...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 9/1994
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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