Review - Paavo Järvi : The Complete Erato Recordings
Andrew Mellor revisits recordings the prolific Estonian conductor made originally for Virgin
Marriner is becoming quite a master like Beecham himself at compiling lollipop records, and here in the French repertory he...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 11/1984
A musical evening in Paris in the early 1800s could be a cosmopolitan affair. This programme of rarities pairs the...
Reviewed in issue 1/1996
Oberon will always be a problem work. Weber wrote it for a set of English theatrical conventions, in which music...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 6/1993
David Philip Hefti (b1975) has emerged during a period in which the European avant-garde no longer dominates the new music...
Reviewed by Richard_Whitehouse in issue: 13/2010
Solomon, the greatest pianist the UK has produced by a long chalk, recorded fairly regularly from 1941 until the end...
Reviewed by Stephen Plaistow in issue: 12/2002
Purcell’s theatre music has not received a complete survey since Christopher Hogwood’s pioneering set from the 1970s and ’80s, and...
Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 5/2008
This is a disc that barely needs any recommendation from a reviewer, especially at medium price. Three years after making...
Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 4/1992
The chief delight in this first offering from The English Concert under its new director, Andrew Manze, is the performance...
Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 10/2003
In a fine extended introductory essay Michael Noone suggests that Byrd’s Gradualia stand out in his output, on account of...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 7/2009
Tony Palmer’s video biography of Callas was made in VHS form a couple of years after her death. It now...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 10/2007
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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