Review - Paavo Järvi : The Complete Erato Recordings
Andrew Mellor revisits recordings the prolific Estonian conductor made originally for Virgin
This is a curiously, at times maddeningly, uneven recital. At his best Gorne is a persuasive, silver-tongued interpreter, at his...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 10/1997
Henryk Gorecki (b. 1933) has become one of the most significant exponents of what is often called 'the new simplicity'....
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 9/1991
After the last war, Wilhelm Furtwangler was invited to conduct in Chicago, and although political pressures made his visit a...
Reviewed in issue 7/1993
Faure was the first composer—ahead of Debussy, Schoenberg and Sibelius—whose music inspired by Maeterlinck's Pelleas et Melisande was to reach...
Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 1/1988
Nineteen-sixty-five was the year which brought Fischer-Dieskau to Aldeburgh. More surprisingly, it brought Brahms also (Brahms being the composer of...
Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 9/2009
Karajan's 1971 EMI recording of Bruckner's Seventh Symphony, originally issued as a three-LP set with the Fourth Symphony, is so...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 6/1989
For me the music of the Spanish zarzuela, with its seemingly endless fund of melody, is one of the joys...
Reviewed by Andrew Lamb in issue: 11/1992
Here is a disc to delight anyone who has enjoyed Nielsen’s incomparable autobiography, My Childhood on Fyn, and who has...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 4/2007
Since the 1860s the French song limelight has rather been hogged by MM Faure, Duparc, Debussy and Poulenc, with Ravel’s...
Reviewed in issue 7/2001
Serenata of London play without a conductor, but with a leader (Barry Wilde). At least this policy ensures experience (as...
Reviewed in issue 11/1987
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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