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Furtwängler from Neeme Järvi
13th Jun 2025
At the helm of the Estonian National Symphony Orchestra, the Järvi family patriarch makes a convincing case for the German conductor's shapeshifting Symphony No. 2, completed in Switzerland shortly after he fled Nazi Germany in 1945.
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Neeme Järvi conducts Richard Strauss’s ballet, Josephslegende
10th Jun 2013
Strauss himself may have spoke slightingly of this work (commissioned by Sergei Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes in 1914), but Chris is won over by the range and combinations of orchestral colours, and Järvi’s carefully calculated tempos and tempo relationships.
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Tchaikovsky's Sleeping Beauty from Neeme Järvi
10th Dec 2012
A new trilogy of complete Tchaikovsky ballet scores from the veteran Estonian conductor and the Bergen Philharmonic gets off to a glittering start, with outstanding solo contributions from violinist James Ehnes and cellist Robert deMaine.
