Review - Paavo Järvi : The Complete Erato Recordings
Andrew Mellor revisits recordings the prolific Estonian conductor made originally for Virgin
From obsequiousness comes greatness. Coupled to an allegorical play‚ designed to laud not only a Habsburg emperor (Charles VI) at...
Reviewed in issue 11/2001
Ars Nova seem admirably suited to perform Gombert's sacred music, with its rich contrapuntal intensity and its exploration of vocal...
Reviewed by mberry in issue: 10/1990
Shame on the Soloists of Australia for their titular misuse of the English language (orchestras and soloists are opposite things)!...
Reviewed in issue 3/1987
The weeks leading up to Lent carry a preparatory message which unifies these latest Pilgrimage cantatas, recorded in Naarden in...
Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 7/2009
In some of these Glosses, Opp. 46 and 48, it’s not clear what, apart from a desire to pay homage...
Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 12/1996
Let me start by getting a niggle out of the way and saying that I really can't see the point...
Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 11/1990
This three-CD set is an exciting prospect from an Italian team, with little-known early works by Cage and the first...
Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 11/2010
The French have, I think, a taste for the romantic violin; certainly many of their composers have. Enough, self-evidently, to...
Reviewed in issue 6/1986
Good to see Frank Bridge’s magnificent Piano Sonata at last coming into its own. Three years in gestation and completed...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 8/2007
Glazunov's eight completed symphonies are like as many delicate ballet dancers crammed into executive dress. Time and again, one senses...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 12/1999
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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