Review - Paavo Järvi : The Complete Erato Recordings
Andrew Mellor revisits recordings the prolific Estonian conductor made originally for Virgin
The Knights, an ensemble of orchestral dimensions but flexible enough to perform repertoire drawing on a wide range of contemporary...
Reviewed by Philip Kennicott in issue: 05/2017
If not an unknown quantity, Kate Whitley (b1989) is still little known on the wider UK music scene and this...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 05/2017
Wagner’s would-be Beethovenian Symphony in C major is tolerably well known. Though a student work, the composer retained a soft...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 05/2017
These two discs present two prolific but very different conductors with orchestras they each took over at the start of...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 05/2017
He may be best known as having written scores for the Lord of the Rings and Hobbit trilogies, and those...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 05/2017
Imagine if you’d never heard a Rachmaninov concerto in your life. Listening to this new recording of Nos 2 and...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 05/2017
The London-trained Italian pianist Vanessa Benelli Mosell has conspicuous musical (and even more conspicuous photogenic) talent, and for a young...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 05/2017
Allan Pettersson never heard his Fourteenth Symphony (1977 78). Premiered 17 months after his death in June 1980, it has...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 05/2017
The term ‘serenade’ evidently meant diffrerent things to Mozart at different times. The Posthorn is a Salzburg work, composed in...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 05/2017
Concerto repertoire appears for the first time in DG’s series of live archival recordings with pianist Gregory Sokolov. In Mozart’s...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 05/2017
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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