Review - Paavo Järvi : The Complete Erato Recordings
Andrew Mellor revisits recordings the prolific Estonian conductor made originally for Virgin
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WALTON Façade
Listeners to BBC Radio 4 will already be familiar with Carole Boyd (aka Lynda Snell in The Archers) and Zeb...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 06/2017
VERDI Requiem
Verdi’s Requiem launched the LSO’s 2016 17 Barbican season last September in performances that, by all accounts, were high-voltage occasions....
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 06/2017
VECCHI Requiem
While not exactly a revelation (given its audible debt to Ensemble Organum), Graindelavoix’s recent recording of Machaut’s Mass was vocally...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 06/2017
SCHUMANN Einsamkeit
There’s a certain overlap between this new Schumann disc from Matthias Goerne and one he recorded in the early 2000s...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 06/2017
Dessay Sings Schubert
Having admired Natalie Dessay in operatic repertoire ranging from Handel to Massenet and Strauss, I’m sorry not to be more...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 06/2017
SCARLATTI St John Passion
Scholars used to think that Scarlatti’s St John Passion was a very early work influenced by two similar settings by...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 06/2017
MONTEVERDI Night. Stories of Lovers and Warriors
As anniversaries go, 450 isn’t much of a round number, but since it will be another quarter-century until the next...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 06/2017
Eternal Monteverdi
It is not a new idea to place Monteverdi’s church music from sources later than the famous 1610 collection into...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 06/2017
GRAINGER Folk Music
Folk music collections such as this are not nearly as simple to bring off as they might seem. Percy Grainger’s...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 06/2017
FRANZ Lieder
‘My Lieder are not meant to awake the passions, but to create peace and tranquillity’, wrote Robert Franz (1815 92)...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 06/2017
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Review - William Christie: The Complete Erato Recordings
Lindsay Kemp welcomes a box of Baroque delights from the American conductor
Book review - So Written To After-Times: John McCabe – A Life in Letters (Compiled by Monica McCabe)
'This is a treasure trove of information, thoroughly recommended'
A buyer's guide to first-time record players
The tabletop ‘music centre’ may be just a distant memory, but where do you start when you want to...
Review - Jorge Bolet: Complete Decca Recordings
Tim Parry explores the legacy of Jorge Bolet’s Decca recordings
Box-set Round-up: March 2025 (Edith Farnadi, Aline van Barentzen, Christine Walevska)
Rob Cowan on collections devoted to two pianists, a cellist and a composer
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