Review - Paavo Järvi : The Complete Erato Recordings
Andrew Mellor revisits recordings the prolific Estonian conductor made originally for Virgin
The latest in Riccardo Muti’s sequence of Cherubini Masses is one of the least known, the eighth of the 11,...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 10/2007
A poorly paced libretto and unsatisfactory resolution make La vida breve an unconvincing piece in the theatre. On disc Falla’s...
Reviewed by Andrew Lamb in issue: 11/2006
Andrew Lamb reviewed the CD of this production in deservedly glowing terms in last year’s Awards issue. But DVD‚ with...
Reviewed in issue 3/2002
Transferring Bach’s music from one instrument to another is all the rage these days – no fewer than seven of...
Reviewed in issue 3/2002
This, the third and final instalment in Decca’s Thibaudet/Ashkenazy Rachmaninov concerto cycle (previous issues were reviewed in 12/94 and 10/95),...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 5/1998
“The exhilarating force, expressivity and technical demands of an opera like Ifigenia leave us dumbfounded.” Conductor Juan Bautista Otero certainly...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 4/2007
These are impressive performances, as I indicated in my review of the LP disc, and being excellently recorded they sound...
Reviewed in issue 9/1985
The Rite of Spring is the only one of Stravinsky’s four Russian ballets that contains no part for piano and,...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 1/2005
Gounod’s symphonies, boomed the first edition of Grove magisterially, “are of no importance”; and this dismissive judgement has persisted until...
Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 1/1997
Alt-Bachisches Archiv is the name given to a collection of music by the older members of the family – that...
Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 5/2003
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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