JOHN ADAMS / SAMUEL BARBER / GEORGE GERSHWIN / LEONARD BERNSTEIN / STEVE REICH / etc
American Classics Hélène Grimaud, Renaud Capuçon, Labèque Sisters, Peter Donohoe, John McGlinn, Paavo Jarvi, Christopher Warren-Green, Simon Rattle [ Warner Classics / 6 CD Box Set - released 12/Aug/2016 ] "Under Rattle the foxtrot from The Chairman Dances has unabated energy" (Rosette Penguin Stereo) |
ARVO PART
Arvo Part Viktoria Mullova (violin) / Estonian National Symphony Orchestra, Paavo Jarvi [ Onyx / CD - released 21/Sep/2018 ] "Immutable, austere, impassable - the strength of Arvo Pärt's music lies in its ability to project an image as powerful and complete as the religious iconography it often seeks to replicate." Gramophone |
BELA BARTOK
Bartok: Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta / Divertimento / Dance Suite NHK Symphony Orchestra, Tokyo, Paavo Järvi [ RCA Red Seal / Sony Classical / CD - released 14/Feb/2020 ] Paavo Järvi has been Chief Conductor of Tokyo's NHK Symphony Orchestra for five years. He has put this distinguished orchestra on the musical map for its classy ensemble work and wholehearted response to the great Austro-German repertoire, a... |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Symphonies Nos. 1-9 (complete) Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, Paavo Järvi [ Sony Classical / 5 CD Box Set - released 16/Oct/2016 ] The recordings of Beethoven's nine symphonies collected together here for this 5 disc album - for which Paavo Järvi received the 2010 ECHO Klassik Conductor of the Year award - and the orchestra's live performances of the complete Beethoven symphony... |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Symphonies Nos.2 & 6 'Pastoral' Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, Paavo Järvi [ Sony / Hybrid SACD - released 5/Oct/2009 ] "This is a quite wonderful disc, in which every demand one might have on a performance of these two great works is met" BBC Music Five Stars |
Paavo Jarvi & Cincinnati So
Berlioz:symphonie Fantastique [ Telarc / SACD - released 10/Sep/2001 ] |
RAVEL
Bolero / Suite No. 2 from Daphnis et Chloa / Pavane for a Dead Princess / La Valse / etc Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra / Paavo Jarvi (conductor) [ Telarc Records / CD - released 19/Feb/2004 ] "Minor quibbles aside, this makes a noteworthy Ravel collection" Editor's Choice Gramophone Magazine July 2004 |
JOHANNES BRAHMS / GIOVANNI BATTISTA VIOTTI / ANTONIN DVORAK
Brahms: Double Concerto / Viotti: Violin Concerto No 22 / Dvorak: Silent Woods Christian Tetzlaff (violin) Tanja Tetzlaff (cello) / Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Paavo Jarvi [ Ondine / CD - released 20/Oct/2023 ] This album by violinist Christian Tetzlaff and cellist Tanja Tetzlaff together with the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin conducted by Paavo Järvi, is dedicated in the memory of their longtime artistic partner, pianist Lars Vogt (1970-2022). At... |
JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms: The Symphonies Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Paavo Berglund, conductor [ Ondine / 3 CD Box Set - released 25/Feb/2013 ] This triple CD contains the complete symphonies of Brahms, performed by the Chamber Orchestra of Europe under the direction of Finnish conductor Paavo Berglund. These recordings were made live at the Baden-Baden Festival Hall in May 2000. |
BENJAMIN BRITTEN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Britten: Orchestral Works (Incls Sinfonia da Requiem, Simple Symphony & Prince of the Pagodas) Leif Ove Andsnes, Peter Donohoe, Simon Rattle, Paavo Berglund, Oliver Knussen, etc [ EMI Classics / 8 CD Box Set - released 4/Feb/2013 ] "And there are no duds and some real winners among these performances, which bid fair to rival Britten's own survey for Decca." MusicWeb |
BENJAMIN BRITTEN / WILLIAM WALTON / MICHAEL TIPPETT
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Britten/Walton/Tippett: British Composers [Symphonies, Concertos, Chamber Music] Dame Janet Baker, Robert Tear, Sheila Armstrong, Ida Haendel, Michael Thompson Horn Quartet, Paavo Berglund, Neville Marriner, Andre Previn [ EMI Classics / 5 CD Box Set - released 28/Mar/2011 ] "The Britten-Walton-Tippett set is an exemplar of the excellence found in the EMI house tradition. There are whoopingly good recordings of the Spring Symphony and the Four Sea Interludes - sadly the Grimes - Passacaglia is not included. What a... |
ANTON BRUCKNER
Bruckner: Symphony No. 7 Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich, Paavo Järvi [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 27/Jan/2023 ] The first performance of Anton Bruckner's Seventh Symphony at the Zurich Tonhalle took place on 14 January 1924, to mark the centenary of the composer's birth. Under the direction of Walter, Furtwängler, Klemperer, Böhm and Karajan (to name but a... |
ANTON BRUCKNER
Bruckner: Symphony No. 8 Paavo Järvi, Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 25/Aug/2023 ] Anton Bruckner called his Symphony no.8 in C minor a 'mystery'; others have seen it as an 'apocalyptic' work. For Paavo Jarvi, it is the composer's 'most unusual symphony' and the 'pinnacle' of his symphonic output. In the history of the... |
DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH
Shostakovich: Cantatas Aleksei Tanovitski (bass) & Kostiantin Andrejev (tenor) / Estonian National Symphony Orchestra, Narva Boys Choir & Estonian Concert Choir, Paavo Järvi [ Erato / Warner Classics / CD - released 20/Jun/2015 ] "Järvi's Estonians perform with fervour and the Razin makes the issue worthwhile." (Sunday Times) |
ANTONIN DVORAK / VICTOR HERBERT
Dvorak / Herbert: Cello Concertos Gautier Capucon (cello) / Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra, Paavo Jarvi [ Erato / Warner Classics / CD - released 1/Apr/2009 ] "Gautier Capuçon gives a richly lyrical and sympathetic account of Herbert's Concerto, reaching heights of eloquence in its beguiling slow movement and revelling in the virtuosity of the latter parts of the finale." BBC Music Magazine, March 2009 **** |
SERGEI PROKOFIEV / DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH
Prokofiev / Shostakovich: Cello Concertos Steven Isserlis (cello) / Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra, Paavo Järvi [ Hyperion / CD - released 1/Apr/2015 ] BBC Music Magazine Awards 2016 Finalist - Concerto |
LEPO SUMERA
Concerto for Cello and Orchestra (1998/99); Musica profana (1997); Symphony No.6 (2000) David Geringas (cello) / Estonian National Symphony Orchestra conducted by Paavo Jarvi [ BIS / CD - released 23/Jun/2003 ] The complete symphonic output of this fascinating composer, who in 2000 died at the age of 50, has been documented. |
BARTOK
Concerto for Orchestra (with Lutoslawski's Fanfare for Louisville. ) Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra / Paavo Jarvi [ Telarc SACD / SACD - released 1/Apr/2006 ] "A release I will revisit occasionally if the mood takes me, the LutosÅ‚awski more successful than the Bartók" (MusicWeb Sept 2006) |
ERKKI-SVEN TUUR
Concerto for Violin and Orchestra / Aditus / Exodus Isabelle Van Keulen (violin) / CBSO / Paavo Jarvi [ ECM / CD - released 1/Jan/2003 ] "The recording captures the full range of Tüür's orchestral colours, and the booklet includes an illuminating interview with the composer as well as helpful descriptive notes." David Fanning, Gramophone |
RICHARD STRAUSS
Der Burger als Edelmann (Suite for Orchestra); Duett-Concertino for clarinet and bassoon; etc Daniel Sepec (Violin) Nicole Kern (Clarinet) Higinio Arrua (Bassoon) / The Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen / Paavo Jarvi [ Pentatone SACD / SACD - released 20/Apr/2005 ] "This PentaTone release is probably among the five best-sounding high-resolution discs encountered thus far….But this sonic excellence is beside the point if the performances are negligible. This happily, is not the case…the individual virtuosity of... |