Review - Paavo Järvi : The Complete Erato Recordings
Andrew Mellor revisits recordings the prolific Estonian conductor made originally for Virgin
Let me say at the outset that this is the most satisfying performance of Gounod's favourite opera yet to appear...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 5/1987
This two-CD set includes performances of both Lully’s original opera orchestra music and Anglebert’s harpsichord transcriptions. To them, Céline Frisch...
Reviewed by mscott rohan in issue: 11/2005
On that proverbial desert island, one would indubitably wish to have at least one record by Ninon Vallin, and what...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 12/1986
George Rochberg created quite a scandal when he moved away from writing serial music in the late-1960s to return towards...
Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 7/1991
Sternly, even fiercely standing its ground, the Blake cycle is one of Britten’s most unaccommodating works. Closest in its own...
Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 7/2010
My notes on this marvellous issue are littered with amazed adjectives. Fassbaender's daring, all-in style precisely matched, indeed encouraged by...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 6/1992
At the première in Paris of Joaquín Turina’s Piano Quintet‚ Isaac Albéniz‚ arriving late‚ asked the person next to him...
Reviewed in issue 10/2002
Boult conducts the first movement of the symphony at a fastish tempo, and takes the repeat. The playing is a...
Reviewed in issue 5/1989
Yet another admirable British Composers collection. The Tear/Handley Elgar and Butterworth items (rarities all—these were, I believe, premiere recordings) were...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 3/1994
This is the third collection of Paul Bowles’s music that I have heard in the past few months (see reviews...
Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 10/1996
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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