Paavo Järvi

This is the first recording to do full justice to Le tombeau resplendissant...The piece emerges not as an inferior sequel to Les offrandes oubliées but as a powerful and deeply personal symphonic... — Gramophone Magazine, December 2019 More…

Järvi is an almost ideal interpreter of this composer, not only managing to bring transparency and luminosity to Schmidt’s often thickly textured orchestration, but also keeping a tight rein... — BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2020, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Järvi is good at bringing out the music’s humour...Mind you, Järvi’s clock runs very fast...The Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie of Bremen is on its toes throughout, and the recording does the playing... — BBC Music Magazine, July 2023, 3 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 4 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…

From the clarinet solo that opens No 1 to the unforgettable C major scale launching No 7, intensity and idiomatic intelligence abound. No 7 is magnificent, and aptly follows No 6 (they’re related)... — Sunday Times, 3rd February 2019 More…

[Järvi’s] super-group is not huge but its bright clarity, with violins antiphonally placed, does not preclude the plumbing of depths both physical and emotional…This must be one of the finer... — Gramophone Magazine, March 2018 More…

Cast in a single movement, this thrilling 35-minute work [Mythos] explores new pathways for the composer in an idiom entirely modern and his own while at the same time, inspired by Finno-Ugric... — BBC Music Magazine, June 2020, 5 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 4 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…