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Neeme Järvi’s quick speeds in this music can be interesting, provocative, and exciting. Not here. The outer movements go well enough, their swiftness never getting
This is a wonderfully intelligent program: Erich Korngold’s by now very familiar concerto coupled with a totally unknown but equally attractive piece taken from exactly
It’s good to see Neeme Järvi back on Chandos, working in top form, and it’s even better to see the label starting a new project
Every 10 years or so, record companies like to root around their catalogs, resurrect good samples, pair them up differently from their original incarnations, and
Neeme Järvi has no cachet as a Bruckner conductor, and his performance of the Eighth Symphony for Chandos was pretty dreadful, so expectations for this
At five discs for the price of two, this set is a steal. Neeme Järvi’s versions of the eight symphonies are as fine as any
Michael Daugherty is a wonderful composer, and these three pieces make splendid listening. Fire and Blood is a violin concerto, and a damn fine one.
Neeme Järvi ends his variable Tchaikovsky symphony cycle on an upswing. Symphony No. 3 benefits greatly from Järvi’s characteristic light and fast approach, which emphasizes
This set contains almost all of Sibelius’ incidental music written to accompany spoken theater (King Kristian II, Swanwhite, Pelléas and Mélisande, Belshazzar’s Feast, Kuolema, Jedermann,
If you saw these performances as part of a typical subscription concert, you would probably go away satisfied. They are proficient and respectful, and probably
