Review - Paavo Järvi : The Complete Erato Recordings
Andrew Mellor revisits recordings the prolific Estonian conductor made originally for Virgin
The Danish Horn Trio are a warmly sympathetic Brahmsian team. But of course the horn dominates in the Brahms Trio‚...
Reviewed in issue 9/2002
Confession time: I have a near obsession with Requiems. Browsing through the shelves, any CD with the word “Requiem” on...
Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 6/2009
''This is the first time I have ever heard Bernstein conduct Mahler, and I certainly hope that it will not...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 6/1989
Ever since the late 1950s, recordings of the Richard Strauss horn concertos have been over-shadowed by the famous Dennis Brain...
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 2/1988
Don’t be taken aback by so much rubato because it is legitimate. The treatises of Diruta‚ Quantz‚ Mattheson and Walther...
Reviewed in issue 3/2002
This recording presents a selection of renaissance lamentations – a frequent theme in an age when premature mortality was far...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 7/1996
Hyperion long ago paid signal service to Bruckner’s mature settings of the Mass with recordings by Matthew Best’s Corydon Singers...
Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 11/2007
This ‘mystic tale’ in oratorio form by Milhaud’s disciple, the Neapolitan composer Antonio Braga, was written about 30 years ago...
Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 3/1999
“Mozart: The Last Concertos” runs the rubric on the CD booklet, though as a counter to any sentimental “swansong” associations,...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 5/2008
A thought-provoking attempt to prise open the most imposing work of the organ repertoire contrasts an urtyp account on a...
Reviewed in issue 10/1998
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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