Review - Paavo Järvi : The Complete Erato Recordings
Andrew Mellor revisits recordings the prolific Estonian conductor made originally for Virgin
All good marketing principles cast aside, Gli Angeli Genève have assembled five magnificent cantatas from contrasting 17th- and 18th-century North...
Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 11/2008
This is the most enjoyable and convincing piece of advocacy for Percy Grainger's music that I have heard for a...
Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 4/1990
Max Reger’s orchestral arrangements of 15 Schubert Lieder, made in 1913-14, are essentially period pieces. The big dramatic songs are...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 4/1999
This well filled conspectus was made last year, Dame Elizabeth Maconchy’s centenary year. Her compositions, never less than civilised, prove...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 4/2008
Based on last July’s Royal Festival Hall production – with one cast change – this new HMS Pinafore’s most distinctive...
Reviewed by Andrew Lamb in issue: 7/2000
It’s wonderful how Kreisler’s short pieces for violin and piano continue to hold a fascination for violinists and listeners. Other...
Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 2/2004
Here are two large-scale works from either end of the 1980s by the Australian composer Barry Conyngham (b. 1944), performed...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 2/1994
This second CD from Peter Urquhart’s American ensemble brings some more of Ockeghem’s Masses to the catalogue – The Clerks’...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 11/1997
An elementary remark, but the immediate reaction to the first sound of the voice is simply ''This man is a...
Reviewed in issue 12/1995
The cleanest and often also the gentlest of violin-playing; Perlman, no stranger to large-scale concertos, adapts very readily to a...
Reviewed in issue 12/1984
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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