Review - Paavo Järvi : The Complete Erato Recordings
Andrew Mellor revisits recordings the prolific Estonian conductor made originally for Virgin
In spite of the French title, and the conductor known for his interest in period performance, this is not the...
Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 2/1990
Fritz Kreisler's art does not travel comfortably into the 1990s, it's far too angst-free for our troubled age, too unequivocally...
Reviewed in issue 9/1993
How could one describe the fascination of Martinu's Julietta to someone who has never heard it? One could begin, perhaps,...
Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 6/1993
First, the instruments themselves, both from Washington’s Smithsonian Museum – the legendary Stradivarius once owned by the great Belgian cellist,...
Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 1/1996
It’s been nearly a decade since the appearance of Douglas Bostock’s pioneering recording of Arthur Butterworth’s epic First Symphony (Classico,...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 8/2009
The “diluvio” of the title, being “universale”, is of course Noah’s Flood, but we can banish all thoughts of the...
Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 1/2007
This enthralling set only goes to confirm Furtwangler as the deepest and most satisfying of all Wagner conductors. How sad,...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 4/1994
It is hard to realize that when this set appeared in 1952 it was the first studio-made recording of the...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 10/1994
Here is one of the more distinguished Rachmaninov issues of recent years, indubitably the best of the ongoing Mariss Jansons/St...
Reviewed in issue 12/1993
The Berlin Baroque Soloists have impressed before with the skill and style with which they play 18th-century repertoire on modern...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 6/2008
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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