Review - Paavo Järvi : The Complete Erato Recordings
Andrew Mellor revisits recordings the prolific Estonian conductor made originally for Virgin
This pair of CDs was recorded live earlier this year to celebrate the music of John Williams and the centenary...
Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 06/2019
The four concertante works that feature on this recording under the direction of the clarinettist and conductor Michael Collins include...
Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 06/2019
Carl Philipp Stamitz (1745-1801) was the scion of a Bohemian musical family that reached its peak in the mid- and...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 06/2019
Markus Maskuniitty began his orchestral career as first horn in the Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester. Since then, he’s served as principal...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 06/2019
Pentatone returns to Schubert’s youthful symphonic output just a matter of months after its issue of the B’Rock Orchestra’s disc...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 06/2019
Why do Saint-Saëns’s youthful symphonies get such a bad rap? Even Roger Nichols apologises more than is necessary for Urbs...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 06/2019
It’s weeks since I reviewed the last disc of orchestral music by Bernard Rands. No, I hadn’t heard of him...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 06/2019
The Isle of the Dead might be regarded as the makeweight here but it has long been a Jurowski speciality...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 06/2019
Having recorded Prokofiev’s complete works for violin and piano with Ronald Brautigam (Challenge Classics, 5/13), Isabelle van Keulen might have...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 06/2019
Michael Oliver described Pettersson’s Second Violin Concerto (1977 79) in these pages as ‘perplexing but absorbing, infuriatingly chaotic but somehow...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 06/2019
Andrew Mellor revisits recordings the prolific Estonian conductor made originally for Virgin
Lindsay Kemp welcomes a box of Baroque delights from the American conductor
The tabletop ‘music centre’ may be just a distant memory, but where do you start when you want to...
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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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