Review - Paavo Järvi : The Complete Erato Recordings
Andrew Mellor revisits recordings the prolific Estonian conductor made originally for Virgin
This would be more accurately entitled 'An Hour of Little-Known Beethoven including Two Minutes of Unknown Richard Strauss'. In 1924...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 5/2000
All this cheerful music was written in London in late Stewart times, the first three composers being foreigners who did...
Reviewed in issue 9/1984
Expert as their playing is, the Brodsky seem less in tune with Haydn and Mozart than they did with Shostakovich...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 11/1996
The CD version has arrived before the LP (not yet scheduled), an expensive offering even if the usual concern for...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 12/1983
Few pianists can have both enchanted and enfuriated their audiences more than Samson Francois. Prodigiously gifted with limitless imagination and...
Reviewed in issue 8/2001
Except for a newly sprightly “Benedictus”, Colin Davis’s live Mozart Requiem (actually a conflation of two separate Barbican performances) is...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 6/2008
Glyndebourne's first The Turn of the Screw divided opinion. At some points the staging delved deeper into the opera’s subconscious...
Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 8/2011
Here’s a really fine performance of the great C major Quintet. The Lindsays take the first movement at a true...
Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 8/1997
The mantle of Sir George Thalben-Ball sits easily enough on the shoulders of his successor at Birmingham, Thomas Trotter. The...
Reviewed in issue 11/1987
The concertos by Michael Haydn and Leopold Mozart are not what you might expect – transcriptions of horn concertos. According...
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 7/2004
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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