Review - Paavo Järvi : The Complete Erato Recordings
Andrew Mellor revisits recordings the prolific Estonian conductor made originally for Virgin
This is an agreeable collection, but not a distinctive one, even though the playing is of a high calibre. What...
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 9/1992
As their previous disc of the Second and Fifth Symphonies already indicated (12/99), Douglas Bostock and the RLPO have a...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 11/2000
This selection of popular French piano duets, excellently played in a quiet, unforced manner, makes for an enjoyable disc. Fromentin...
Reviewed by Tim Parry in issue: 2/1999
When Karl Bohm’s 1963-71 Berlin Schubert cycle was first gathered together in a five-LP box in 1973, Trevor Harvey had...
Reviewed in issue 8/2001
Yakov Kreizberg launches the Sinfonia concertante in emphatic style: a no-nonsense tempo, lashing sforzando accents, a powerful forward impetus. Mozart’s...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 11/2007
Simply because one doesn't associate Schnittke with a cappella choral music, this disc is a genuine ear-opener. Minnesang (1981) is...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 2/1993
Aptly dedicated to Julian Bream, this new collection promises a bargain feast for lovers of 20th-century English guitar music. Although...
Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 10/2005
I welcomed the first two volumes of the complete songs and tried to readjust to a situation where Ives is...
Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 12/2008
Everyone has a soft spot for Scarlatti, but few, it seems, have one as yielding as Richard Lester, whose complete...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 6/2007
For years it has been a mantra among musical Francophiles: ‘I expect it’s in the French Radio archives’, followed by...
Reviewed by rnichols in issue: 7/2003
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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