Review - Paavo Järvi : The Complete Erato Recordings
Andrew Mellor revisits recordings the prolific Estonian conductor made originally for Virgin
Johann Simon Mayr‚ the Bavarianborn composer who was a leading figure in serious Italian opera in the decades around 1800‚...
Reviewed in issue 5/2002
“Youthful juvenilia” was the painfully self-critical Mendelssohn’s put-down of his Reformation Symphony. “Of all my pieces this is the one...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 6/2010
CBS are to be congratulated on not spreading the Turangalila-symphonie over two complete CDs. But the couplings do seem primarily...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 1/1987
Hans Pfitzner's later music suggests that he identified closely with the imprisoned soldier in a poem by C. F. Meyer...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 4/1994
A fair showing from one of Moscow’s new orchestras, but it’s no match for the Russian National Orchestra. In the...
Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 12/1996
Zukerman and Neikrug have chosen to begin this programme with the A major Sonata that was Mozart's last major work...
Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 7/1993
The Martucci case gets curiouser and curiouser with every recording of his music that emerges. The Second Symphony, regarded by...
Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 5/1990
The three-and-a-bit works collected here are in many ways the weaker brethren in Glazunov’s symphonic oeuvre. His debut as a...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 12/2009
Founded eight years ago, Concordia are not the newest viol consort to have made a name for themselves in the...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 10/2000
Any Mahlerian resident in the United States in 1935, and willing to travel the length and breadth of the country,...
Reviewed in issue 7/1997
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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