Review - Paavo Järvi : The Complete Erato Recordings
Andrew Mellor revisits recordings the prolific Estonian conductor made originally for Virgin
Ergodos has in recent years become an essential platform for new music. An independent label founded by the Irish composers...
Reviewed by Liam Cagney in issue: 09/2020
Caught at the junction of folk-earthiness and blue remembered sentiment, Ivor Gurney’s music has dated more markedly than that of...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 09/2020
This project originates in a residency of several years the composer undertook at St John’s College, Cambridge. At its heart...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 09/2020
Ivor Bolton’s survey of unfamiliar and familiar Fauré examines his sacred music for its third instalment, placing the Requiem and...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 09/2020
A cappella quartets and quintets generally belong to the world of Byrd and the barbershop. Mozart’s vocal canons are like...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 09/2020
What an interesting and original idea for Vasco Dantas to juxtapose Schumann’s Kinderszenen, Carl Reinecke’s virtually unknown Schumann song transcriptions...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 09/2020
Doth Mahan Esfahani protest too much? Here we have a cohesive, effective, taut programme of 20th-century harpsichord works that builds...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 09/2020
On paper, the 2019 GFA Competition winner Johan Smith’s recital programme looks unremarkable: a classic mix of old and new,...
Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 09/2020
The Armenian artist Sergei Babayan is perhaps best known as Daniil Trifonov’s sometime teacher and mentor. It is presumably thanks...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 09/2020
Following the five concertos (3/16, 4/19), which amply demonstrated Vadym Kholodenko’s Prokofievian credentials, the still youngish Ukrainian now moves to...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 09/2020
Andrew Mellor revisits recordings the prolific Estonian conductor made originally for Virgin
Lindsay Kemp welcomes a box of Baroque delights from the American conductor
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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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