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Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet Suites - Paavo Järvi          (2 of 4 found this review helpful)
  December 8, 2005

Romeo and Juliet is a total masterpiece - the themes seem to lodge in your brain and you can't get them out. As has been stated before in this forum and others Paavo Jarvi is not one to wring every last drop of emotion from a score, more staying on the objective side. Nothing wrong with that, but ... more
Rautavaara: Book of Visions etc. - Franck          (1 of 2 found this review helpful)
  December 8, 2005

The First Symphony has a theme in the first movement eerily reminiscent of one in Dracula (the one with Gary Oldham) - though of course the symphony was written 40 years before the movie! I agree with Castor that it also evokes the first movement of the Shostakovich 6th. - though it is a bit lighter ... more
Beethoven: String Quartets Op. 59 No's 1-3 "Razumovsky" - Tokyo String Quartet          (7 of 7 found this review helpful)
  December 1, 2005

Bizzarely I was just going to log on and review this disc when I saw Beagle's review - thank God for democracy because I totally disagree! These are some of Beethoven's greatest works - although people say his late stuff is more profound I have always found his middle period works more "human" and ... more
Mahler: Symphony No. 5 - Netherlands PO/Haenchen          (5 of 8 found this review helpful)
  September 30, 2005

Generally excellent performance somewhat bedevilled by an implausibly wide dynamic range. "What" I hear you say, "this is how an orchestra sounds in a real concert hall!" I agree in a sense, except we have my old bugbear of being somewhere out the back of the hall, just like with the Hough Hyperion ... more
Brahms: Violin Sonatas - Csaba/Heisser          (5 of 7 found this review helpful)
  September 28, 2005

These three sonatas are such radiant masterpieces - really, only Ravel's and the Beethoven 10 equal them in my opinion - that they are essential listening for chamber music afficiandos. The openings of the 1st. and 3rd. seem to float magically into your room, though the 3rd. soon builds up a head of ... more

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