Review - Paavo Järvi : The Complete Erato Recordings
Andrew Mellor revisits recordings the prolific Estonian conductor made originally for Virgin
This is much more of a revised edition than a straightforward reissue of an earlier HMV set (SLS5025, 12/75—nla). It...
Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 12/1985
The insert-notes describe Claude Le Jeune as a ''giant of French Renaissance music''; but France barely looms large on the...
Reviewed in issue 10/1991
The reservations voiced in my review of Richard Egarr’s Well-Tempered Clavier Book 1 (12/07) apply to its sequel. If anything,...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 9/2010
Two hundred years after his birth the choreographer August Bournonville ranks very firmly above the composers of his ballet scores....
Reviewed by Andrew Lamb in issue: 7/2006
Ireland's London Overture, Elgar's Cockaigne and Vaughan Williams's A London Symphony make an obviously attractive (and attractively obvious) 'London' programme....
Reviewed in issue 7/1989
Never was there a conductor less inclined to treat Debussy’s music like a lily that might lose its petals if...
Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 10/1998
Do we need yet another recording of Enigma? Looked at realistically, the answer must be no. But when a performance...
Reviewed in issue 10/1990
Geminiani’s incidental music to The Inchanted Forrest dates from his last period (c1756). Its first performances seem not to have...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 12/2003
This is a bargain-issue and by no means underpriced. The recordings were made live at a concert (or concerts) in...
Reviewed in issue 5/1992
There have been several excellent recordings recently of these two works, mostly on period instruments. Here’s another, on modern instruments,...
Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 10/2003
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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