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...Payne, based on the search-and-destroy game created by Finland's "Sam Lake" (Sami Jarvi), is a tease in more ways than even the MPAA can imagine...
...modern recording era has spawned a curious new breed of conductor who feels compelled to commit anything and everything to disc, even if he has little to say. A highly unscientific survey of the current Schwann catalog highlights Herbert von Karajan, Neeme Jarvi, and Sir Neville Marriner as some of the more egregious offenders...
...praise for sustaining the momentum in the sublime cello theme of the third movement, I still wish that he had felt just a little more free to lose himself in its glory. Typically, he avoids excessively punching the off-beat accents in the final movement, but compared to Neeme Jarvi's Chandos recording, it sounds a bit anemic...
RIMSKY-KORSAKOV: THREE SYMPHONIES, CAPRICCIO ESPAGNOL, RUSSIAN EASTER FESTIVAL OVERTURE (DG). There is much more to Rimsky than Scheherazade, as Neemi Jarvi and the Gothenburg Symphony prove...
...Jarvi led a boring opening of the Shostakovich-- intended as a majestic dialogue for the orchestra. Joseph Silverstein, the concertmaster, bit his bow into the violin strings for no apparent reason, other than perhaps to impress the orchestra-seat audience with his bow technique. The horns, in contrast, played their statement of the main theme with little passion. Shostakovich's conceptions and Jarvi's interpretation began to shine, however, with the entrance of the harp's sustained chords. The composer glutted the music with fat harmonies and lines, which Jarvi wrings from the orchestra, at a cost; a wobbly beat...