Paavo sightings

Paavo Jarvi is on the cover of La Scena Musicale's July/August issue, for a lengthy interview about his music making. If you check here, it looks like his 10th cover story. (Click on the cover to read the entire story.)

At the end, critic Norman Lebrecht added some recommendations of recordings, in which he praises Jarvi and the CSO's Bartok/Lutoslawski recording, and also the Tubin/Sibelius disc:

"Paavo has converted me to the music of Erkki-Sven Tuur and reaffirmed my admiration for the symphonies of Eduard Tubin... The Fifth Symphony, coupled with Sibelius' Second, is quite outstanding."

Meanwhile, Paavo has been touring North America with one of his other bands, the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, performing a Beethoven symphony cycle. Writing about Louis Langree and the festival orchestra at the Mozartly Mozart Festival in Lincoln Center, Jim Oestreich wrote "But for sheer vitality, they will be hard put to match what Paavo Jarvi and the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen put out in the Rose Theater ..."

Reportedly, the Beethoven recordings he's making for RCA with this group are being released here as we speak. As soon as I get my hands on one, you'll get a review.