Review - Paavo Järvi : The Complete Erato Recordings
Andrew Mellor revisits recordings the prolific Estonian conductor made originally for Virgin
On reading Carsten Fastner’s profile of a composer who ‘consistently repudiates [the] complacent eclecticism which several of his colleagues use...
Reviewed by kYlzrO1BaC7A in issue: 10/2004
Notwithstanding the uncertainty over the origins of Bach's Trio Sonatas for organ (and Peter Williams discusses this in his typically...
Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 11/1990
This recording first appeared 17 years ago, and the passage of time hasn’t diminished the grandeur of the achievement of...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 11/1997
I have never understood why Hindemith's Violin Concerto—that in C sharp written in 1939 rather than the 1925 Kammermusik No....
Reviewed in issue 4/1995
A gilels record was always a special event. In the first place it was gratifying to have a significant addition...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 12/1985
This is a generous but not particularly essential portion of Flagstad's releases. Her pre-war and wartime Victors have never seemed...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 10/1990
Anyone who has a copy of the October 1979 issue will find my favourable views on this performance expressed at...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 1/1987
Exemplary clarity, but the insistent thrust in Mozart’s fast movements is wearing. Rémy Cardinale and Hélène Schmitt exult in precision...
Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 9/2011
Any production of Norma stands or falls on the performance of the title-role. In this attractive but ultimately bizarre and...
Reviewed by Patrick O'Connor in issue: 11/2006
Further proof that Sir Edward Downes is an Elgarian to be reckoned with. His Conifer Classics Enigma (1/91), full of...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 6/1994
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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