Review - Paavo Järvi : The Complete Erato Recordings
Andrew Mellor revisits recordings the prolific Estonian conductor made originally for Virgin
With his high collars and long flowing hair, the Robert Radecke who gazes out from the back of the booklet...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 08/2016
This is the third time Mariss Jansons has committed Rachmaninov’s Second Symphony to commercial disc, following earlier versions with the...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 08/2016
The most interesting music on this disc comes first. Selim Palmgren’s Second Piano Concerto (b1913) starts with a mysterious, almost...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 08/2016
For the third volume in Hyperion’s Classical Piano Concerto series Howard Shelley has swapped the Ulster Orchestra for that of...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 08/2016
The Norwegian Chamber Orchestra has something of a reputation for working harmoniously with guest soloist-directors, not least among them Leif...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 08/2016
Is it inevitable that Henze’s most orthodox symphony is destined to receive more recordings than any of his others? This...
Reviewed in issue 08/2016
Shai Wosner, the Israeli-born pianist now based in New York, already has several well-received solo discs to his credit, encompassing...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 08/2016
Naxos’s centenary survey of Granados’s orchestral music continues with a second disc from the Barcelona Symphony Orchestra under Pablo González,...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 08/2016
Chalk and cheese – or more aptly sweet and sour – is the flavour of this Glazunov and Shostakovich concerto...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 08/2016
If you’re wondering, and this would be a perfectly reasonable point to raise, why an album of Morton Feldman’s music...
Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 08/2016
Andrew Mellor revisits recordings the prolific Estonian conductor made originally for Virgin
Lindsay Kemp welcomes a box of Baroque delights from the American conductor
The tabletop ‘music centre’ may be just a distant memory, but where do you start when you want to...
'This is a treasure trove of information, thoroughly recommended'
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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