
Like Paavo Berglund’s Sibelius symphony recordings, also with the Chamber Orchestra of Europe, these Brahms performances inject a certain novelty that will be appreciated especially
What a great set this is: thirteen discs chock full
Paavo Berglund recorded three Sibelius symphony cycles, but as is
[Editor’s Note: When Victor Carr, Jr. reviewed this reissue of
There are so many fine recordings of Smetana’s Má Vlast
Every so often the major labels do something so intelligent
Here are Shostakovich’s two largest, purely instrumental “program” symphonies in a handy two-for-the-price-of-one package. Paavo Berglund’s 1974 recording of the Seventh gains a modicum of
Paavo Berglund’s lifelong dedication to Shostakovich has never been in doubt, right from his earliest recordings with the Bournemouth Symphony for EMI. Indeed, his versions
The Guardian, which, judging from the stickers on various CDs put out by British orchestras, seems never to have heard a performance it didn’t like,
EMI’s Grieg two-fer offers a generous sampling of the composer’s orchestral works, with a few piano pieces thrown in for good measure. Paavo Berglund leads