Review - Paavo Järvi : The Complete Erato Recordings
Andrew Mellor revisits recordings the prolific Estonian conductor made originally for Virgin
Virtually every conductor worth his salt has recorded Brahms’s First Symphony. But Klaus Tennstedt’s and the London Philharmonic’s performance, taken...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 5/2009
The exhilaration experienced on hearing this recording in its original LP format is, happily, renewed in its predictably equally excellent...
Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 12/1986
Leontyne Price’s New York recitals were always big events. She would plan them well in advance, give a ‘try-out’ at...
Reviewed in issue 4/1997
Don Carlos in French at last! That is news to rejoice the hearts of all true Verdians. So will this...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 12/1985
These sonatas for violin, viola da gamba and harpsichord were published in Hamburg in 1696, not many years before Handel...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 3/2006
Oh dear. What has poor Orpheus, the embodiment of music itself, done to deserve this? After the horrors of Nigel...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 13/2005
Having made a New Year’s resolution to stop banging on about collections of Rossini’s overtures that jumble up essentially arbitrary...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 5/1996
It is easy to point out the fortepiano’s shortcomings, especially in the middle to late works of Beethoven. It isn’t...
Reviewed by Stephen Johnson in issue: 3/1998
Hovhaness is nothing if not prolific. The most recent work here, the Tenth Concerto, Op. 413, dates from 1988, so...
Reviewed in issue 7/1998
You need only a very few minutes to realize that Tzimon Barto intends to make every single note in his...
Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 5/1992
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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