Review - Paavo Järvi : The Complete Erato Recordings
Andrew Mellor revisits recordings the prolific Estonian conductor made originally for Virgin
There was a time when sneering remarks about the Leningrad Symphony were de rigueur—when the in joke was Ernest Newman's...
Reviewed by Stephen Johnson in issue: 8/1988
This is the third instalment in Leonard Slatkin’s series of Haydn’s “London” Symphonies (the first was reviewed in 2/95), again...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 7/1997
Wenzel Pichel (1741-1805)—or, to use the name he was born with, Vaclav Pichl—was one of the most prolific composers of...
Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 5/1994
Modern ensembles have always tended to shy away from the French baroque repertory—Lully, Couperin and Rameau for example—because of its...
Reviewed in issue 2/1991
''Der Mensch hat so eine Stimme'' (''The man has a tone of voice'') says Rocco of Florestan, and it's always...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 11/1989
Kirkpatrick’s name is so closely associated with his classic book on Scarlatti and his recordings of Bach that it pulls...
Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 11/1996
Generations of British organists will know of Gustav Merkel through the countless collections of very short and simple organ music...
Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 8/1997
“The most precociously gifted composer the world has ever known.” Annotator Julian Haylock justifiably celebrates a musical talent “which was...
Reviewed in issue 8/1998
Lassus completed his swan-song days before his death on June 14th, 1594. The decision to set 20 stanzas from Luigi...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 8/1994
With these impressive performances (on her beautiful-toned Amati) of the Solo Sonatas and Partitas Monica Huggett sweeps other baroque interpretations...
Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 1/1998
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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