Review - Paavo Järvi : The Complete Erato Recordings
Andrew Mellor revisits recordings the prolific Estonian conductor made originally for Virgin
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BORODIN Piano Quintet. String Quartet No 2
The comparative novelties here are Borodin’s Piano Quintet in C minor and his Cello Sonata in B minor – comparative,...
Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 03/2017
New Year's Concert 2017
Sentiment against the young Venezuelan conductor Gustavo Dudamel often turns ugly, with his most fierce critics lapsing into a disreputable...
Reviewed by Philip Kennicott in issue: 03/2017
VIVALDI The Four Seasons
I’m constantly amazed at how the fount of fresh spins on The Four Seasons never appears to dry up, and...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 03/2017
VASKS Flute Concerto. Symphony No 3
Atvars Lakstīgala and the Liepāja SO follow up their excellent account of Pēteris Vasks’s Second Symphony from 1998 99 (Odradek,...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 03/2017
STUCKY American Muse
The death last year of Steven Stucky (1949-2016) went largely unremarked amid the relentless, almost daily cavalcade of loss in...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 03/2017
SCARLATTI Opera Overtures and Concertos
Alessandro Scarlatti is reputed to have written about 70 operas, so five sinfonias from works written for Naples between 1689...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 03/2017
RUDERS Symphony No 5
The premiere recording of Poul Ruders’s Fifth Symphony, completed in 2013 and premiered in 2015 by the Danish National Radio...
Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 03/2017
RUDERS Symphony No 5
The premiere recording of Poul Ruders’s Fifth Symphony, completed in 2013 and premiered in 2015 by the Danish National Radio...
Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 03/2017
RAVEL Daphnis e Chloé. Une barque sur l'océan
Naxos has done well by Ravel’s Daphnis et Chloé, with a handful of recordings of his symphonie chorégraphique in the...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 03/2017
NIXON Concert Overture No 3. Palamon and Arcite
Born in Kennington, south London, Henry Cotter Nixon (1842-1907) studied privately with Henry Smart, Charles Steggall and George Alexander Macfarren....
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 03/2017
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Review - William Christie: The Complete Erato Recordings
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