Review - Paavo Järvi : The Complete Erato Recordings
Andrew Mellor revisits recordings the prolific Estonian conductor made originally for Virgin
One of the most attractive qualities of this new version of a well-loved quintet is the skill with which the...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 5/1997
Reviewing Ashkenazy's most recent Rachmaninov Third (with Haitink and the Concertgebouw, Decca 417 239-2DH, 11/86) I made passing mention of...
Reviewed in issue 10/1988
A few years back, Sting’s friend the guitarist Dominic Miller gave him a nine-course lute as a gift; Miller also...
Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 13/2006
Niccolò Piccinni’s Roland is mentioned in every history of opera‚ but few will have heard any of its music. This...
Reviewed in issue 3/2002
This is the penultimate issue in Mitsuko Uchida’s eight-CD series, and thanks to her magical recreation of the E flat...
Reviewed by Stephen Plaistow in issue: 9/2002
The description is Bruno Walter’s (‘he appeared to me like a new centaur, half piano, half man’). A prickly, Glasgow-born...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 7/2006
With this disc Andrew Penny and the Irish National Symphony Orchestra round off their fine cycle of the nine Arnold...
Reviewed in issue 9/2001
For many, the most immediately appealing aspect of this record is the stylistic range of the music presented. Fourteenth-century English...
Reviewed by Iain Fenlon in issue: 7/1983
The Lulu suite accounts for nearly half of this well-filled CD, and it is very good indeed. Much of it...
Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 6/1996
How I wish I could recommend this. The Canadian tenor Léopold Simoneau (1916-2006) was a most distinguished Mozartian. His ardent...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 8/2008
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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