Review - Paavo Järvi : The Complete Erato Recordings
Andrew Mellor revisits recordings the prolific Estonian conductor made originally for Virgin
Rued Langgaard was nothing if not prolific. There are 16 symphonies, seven string quartets and some 400 works in all....
Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 12/1992
Beecham’s conception sounds very different here, more atmospheric, yet somehow considerably less taut than I had remembered. Intriguingly, the pitch...
Reviewed in issue 3/2001
Neeme Järvi has sometimes been accused of purveying an all-purpose style with rather hasty tempi, but that kind of integrationist...
Reviewed by Arved Ashby in issue: 7/2005
Of the many modern players who increasingly are performing the smaller-scale eighteenth-century concertos, remarkably few seem able to scale down...
Reviewed in issue 1/1994
Koechlin's Ballade, a 20-minute work cast in a single movement comprising seven sections, was completed in 1919, when the composer...
Reviewed in issue 3/1993
Reger is having a good year. That his most famous (some would say infamous) work for orchestra should have finally...
Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 9/1990
No sooner had I put the finishing touches to my review of Joshua Bell's new Sony recording of Goldmark's First...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 5/2000
Strangely, the Dvorák and Tchaikovsky violin concertos – written within a year of each other – have rarely been coupled...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 4/2004
Simax have followed their three-CD set of historic interpretations of Grieg's piano music (9/93) with a similar one devoted to...
Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 4/1994
Neither Philip Hope-Wallace nor AB could work up much enthusiasm for this recording of Les pecheurs de perles on its...
Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 4/1989
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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