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This thrilling Stockholm performance of Sibelius’ Lemminkäinen Suite under Paavo Järvi isn’t always eclipsed by his illustrious father Neeme’s highly rated BIS performance from Gothenburg.
Here’s another mixed bag from the Disky Communications reissue label, Royal Long Players, entitled “Great Violin Concertos”. That much, at least, is true; the same
Adrian Boult’s almost exclusive dedication to the music of his native England, in which he demonstrated a very real and unique authority, robbed music lovers
This is the second and last volume in BIS’ series of the apprentice compositions of Jean Sibelius for violin and piano, which date from 1884
Neeme Järvi’s re-recording of this repertoire with the Gothenburg Symphony for Deutsche Grammophon does not improve upon his earlier versions on BIS. In fact, his
It’s amazing how late Sibelius, often regarded as enigmatic or for specialists only, has come into fashion in recent years. Complete symphony cycles have proliferated,
Some conductors improve with age, others burn out or decline, while some remain more or less at the same level. John Barbirolli definitely went into
Both quartets on this disc are by composers who were not known for their chamber music, and in the case of Verdi, the E minor
Whoever put together this Sibelius disc for the Decca Legends series really knew what they were doing, as these three performances are arguably the best
Those expecting the grandeur of Sibelius’s great symphonies or his sweeping tone poems will be disappointed by this collection of modest, sometimes understated works for
