Review - Paavo Järvi : The Complete Erato Recordings
Andrew Mellor revisits recordings the prolific Estonian conductor made originally for Virgin
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BABELL Concertos Op 3
‘A great player at a small expense…Mr Babel…at once gratifies idleness and vanity’ is what the music historian Charles Burney...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 01/2017
HAYDN Symphony No 85 'La Reine'
This is the first disc in what promises to be a recording of all six of Haydn’s ‘Paris’ Symphonies, coupled...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 01/2017
La Harp Reine
'La Reine Harpe’ runs the disc’s title, the queen in question being Marie Antoinette, who did for the for harp...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 01/2017
Leo Borchard: Telefunken Recordings 1933-35
It’s all about timing. Eighteen months after the Berliner Philharmoniker elected the second Russian-born Chief Conductor in its 135-year history,...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 01/2017
WEINBERG Symphony No 17
The last years of Stalin’s rule were touch-and-go for all Soviet creative artists, fearful as they were of a re-run...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 01/2017
Lucie Horsch plays Vivaldi
It was big news earlier this year when Decca Classics signed Dutch teenager Lucie Horsch as its first-ever recorder player....
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 01/2017
TCHAIKOVSKY The Nutcracker
The physical presentation of this Oehms Classics release in a standard slim jewel case isn’t going to win any prizes....
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 01/2017
TCHAIKOVSKY Piano Concerto No1. Nutcracker Suite
Alexandra Dariescu has been garnering accolades for the past 10 years or so, and from this debut concerto disc I...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 01/2017
STRAUSS Elektra; Rosenkavalier - Suites
Given that the orchestra could be described as one of the key characters in Strauss’s Elektra, it is surprising that...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 01/2017
SHOSTAKOVICH Cello Concerto No 1. Symphony No 5
When it comes to the First Cello Concerto, the most obvious recent point of comparison is Alisa Weilerstein with the...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 01/2017
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Review - William Christie: The Complete Erato Recordings
Lindsay Kemp welcomes a box of Baroque delights from the American conductor
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...
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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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