Review - Paavo Järvi : The Complete Erato Recordings
Andrew Mellor revisits recordings the prolific Estonian conductor made originally for Virgin
A well-balanced programme, this, proceeding from the pleasantries of the Impromptus through the seductive Barcarolle to the wider vistas of...
Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 11/1993
In retrospect it is possible to conclude that Schwann picked the two plums of Zemlinsky's operatic oeuvre when they recorded...
Reviewed in issue 1/1992
Kronos is a quality act. No quartet currently performing has done more to bridge the divide between popular and ‘serious’...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 2/1996
Packing up LPs for a house move last summer, I was saddened to find so many forgotten opera recitals by...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 4/1999
''Je rapporte une rare emotion'', the line from ''Le martin-pecheur'', one of Ravel's Histoires naturelles, as Dame Maggie sings it,...
Reviewed by Patrick O'Connor in issue: 10/1994
I am no expert on the finances of record labels but I do wonder sometimes how the men in suits...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 8/2010
As he told Martin Anderson in December, Leif Segerstam is no stranger to Mahler's symphonies. He may not be everyone's...
Reviewed in issue 3/1992
These are all, of course, admirable performances; many of them are exceptional, even inspired. Is there any point, though, in...
Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 9/1996
It is disappointing that given an artist of Ashkenazsy's lustre, re-recording repetoire as central as the late Beethoven sonatas, Decca...
Reviewed in issue 2/1993
No performance of a work lasting 66 minutes can fairly be described as perfunctory, but the word kept coming into...
Reviewed in issue 2/1990
Andrew Mellor revisits recordings the prolific Estonian conductor made originally for Virgin
Lindsay Kemp welcomes a box of Baroque delights from the American conductor
The tabletop ‘music centre’ may be just a distant memory, but where do you start when you want to...
'This is a treasure trove of information, thoroughly recommended'
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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