Neeme Järvi Wagner Transcriptions

Considered as extended highlights...this is seriously good, not least for the RNSO's suave playing, captured in silky SACD sound...The garden scene has a sensual glow, Mark's intrusion sounds... — BBC Music Magazine, March 2011, 4 out of 5 stars More…

If he had written nothing more, Wagner's Symphony in C would still have prefigured his extraordinary genius - but not its direction...It's still a pleasure, though, fresh and vigorous; Neeme... — BBC Music Magazine, May 2012, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Five hours are boiled down to 48 minutes, and the over-emphasis on C major jubilation...is as good an indication as you could get of the counterproductiveness of bringing so close together what... — Gramophone Magazine, November 2011 More…

The Tannhauser excerpt...really begins to boil in the infamous ballet music, giving the sonorous RSNO brass something they can finally tuck into with relish — BBC Music Magazine, August 2010, 2 out of 5 stars More…

…sterling playing from the Scottish orchestra, whose dark, burnished brass section particularly suits Wagner's scoring, and virile, purposeful conducting from Neeme Järvi. — BBC Music Magazine, April 2008, 3 out of 5 stars More…