Review - Paavo Järvi : The Complete Erato Recordings
Andrew Mellor revisits recordings the prolific Estonian conductor made originally for Virgin
I cannot remember when I last enjoyed organ playing, either recorded or live, as much. The Abbey's newly enlarged Harrison...
Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 10/1989
The reclusive life led by this very nearly complete opera from the early 1860s, composed just before Les pêcheurs de...
Reviewed by rnichols in issue: 1/2003
This is the second volume in Vittorio Negri's series of sacred music by Vivaldi for solo voices with instruments (Vol....
Reviewed by Nicholas Anderson in issue: 2/1992
This is another fine issue in the series that Andras Schiff, Sandor Vegh and their Salzburg orchestra have been giving...
Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 10/1991
Solti's is an epic view of the Eroica Symphony somewhat after the manner of Klemperer (EMI). At Solti's steady-treading tempo,...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 4/1987
Most of Mozart's single piano pieces are the product of some special stimulus: they are not the daily bread of...
Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 6/2000
For as long as possible I shall restrict myself to facts. Amy Beach, born in 1867, was a prodigy who...
Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 12/2009
As Masaaki Suzuki’s deeply considered journey through Bach’s cantatas moves towards the core of his celebrated chorale cantata cycle (or...
Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 8/2004
Ending the first leg of their grand project to record all of Byrd’s music, The Cardinall’s Musick present the remaining...
Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 13/1999
These Royal Festival Hall performances have never appeared before either on LP or CD, and so will be of special...
Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 8/1996
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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