Review - Paavo Järvi : The Complete Erato Recordings
Andrew Mellor revisits recordings the prolific Estonian conductor made originally for Virgin
What binds these Traviatas, made almost 50 years apart, is how neatly one is what the other is not. Natalie...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 08/2012
When he died in 2007, Luciano Pavarotti left an estate worth in excess, it is said, of $474 million. It...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue:
As with its predecessors in Hamburg’s now complete 2008-10 Ring, Simone Young brings to Wagner’s textures a constant questioning of...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 04/2012
One we can see, one we can’t – but the 40 years that separate these new releases speak volumes in...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 04/2012
The 350th anniversary of Alessandro Scarlatti’s birth fell in 2010 but did not receive the fuss that one of the...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 04/2012
When this operatic feature film first arrived 10 years ago, anybody suffering from cynicism about the publicised ‘love couple’ might...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 04/2012
Imagine a parallel universe where the greatest democracy on earth had thought better than to legislate against a fifth of...
Reviewed by Philip_Clark in issue: 04/2012
A tour of the ducal palace is more or less obligatory for anyone visiting Venice for the first time. In...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 04/2012
The punning French title (both ‘hearts’ and ‘chorus’) introduces an abstract dance piece about the voice of The People in...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 05/2013
Turn immediately to the Tannhäuser excerpt. Mighty tents are already pitched on this summit of early Wagnerian arioso – Melchior...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 05/2013
Andrew Mellor revisits recordings the prolific Estonian conductor made originally for Virgin
Lindsay Kemp welcomes a box of Baroque delights from the American conductor
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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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