Review - Paavo Järvi : The Complete Erato Recordings
Andrew Mellor revisits recordings the prolific Estonian conductor made originally for Virgin
Tansy Davies has been a notable presence in British contemporary music for over a decade and this first disc dedicated...
Reviewed by Richard_Whitehouse in issue: 7/2011
The play on earlier aesthetics was an integral feature of 20th-century music, as this collection attests. Suite italienne (1933) derives...
Reviewed by kYlzrO1BaC7A in issue: 3/2007
These three choral works show Britten in celebratory mood. His Spring Symphony, completed and first performed in 1949, is one...
Reviewed in issue 4/1991
Dutton’s latest British light music collection spans several decades of musical styles. It opens brightly with Roy Budd’s attractive Tricolor...
Reviewed by Andrew Lamb in issue: 12/2008
Two of Sir Malcolm Arnold’s very best chamber music offerings can be found on this attractive new anthology. Along with...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 11/1996
The case for a Channel tunnel (or something) to speed contact with the world beyond these shores receives reinforcement from...
Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 3/1986
RCA attempted to side-step the problems of recording in Russia by catching the St Petersburg Philharmonic and its Music Director...
Reviewed in issue 9/1994
Though Claudio Arrau was royally served by his record companies, he had an uneasy relationship with studio recording and it...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 11/2004
Put on this record expecting the rich, solemn textures of the slow introduction of Mozart's E flat Symphony, and you...
Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 6/1991
In spite of this EMI transfer being of a modern recording, and a good one, I would advise any newcomer...
Reviewed in issue 1/1989
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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