The Jarvi family dynasty graces the October cover of BBC Music magazine ($9.95) now in United States book and music stores.

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        Paavo Jarvi, 38, the new music director of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, is profiled with his father, Neeme Jarvi, 64, music director of the Detroit Symphony, and younger brother Kristjan Jarvi, 28, founder of New York's Absolute Ensemble and principal conductor of Norrlands Opera and Symphony Orchestra in Umea, Sweden.

        “The Jarvi dynasty is the nearest thing Estonia has to a royal family,” writes Hilary Finch, pointing out that the conductors have made their careers elsewhere.

        Says Kristjan Jarvi about his dad and brother: “They both wound up in places which were essentially traditional.” His Absolute Ensemble is a funky mix of classical, rock and edgy new music.

        (Middle child Maarika Jarvi is a flutist. Her album of flute concertos by Estonian composers will be released here soon on the CCn'C label.)

        The article details why the family left Estonia for America in 1980. (When Neeme Jarvi's Estonian Symphony Orchestra members were sacked after playing the forbidden Arvo Part's Credo, “it was simply the last straw,” he tells Ms. Finch.)

        All are ardent champions of Estonian music, and the magazine includes a good introduction to what that means in a country at times in its history governed by Swedes, Germans and Russians. Packaged with the magazine is a luminous CD (an interactive CD-Rom) with works by Arvo Part, Willem Kapp and Eduard Tubin, all Estonia composers. Each maestro takes a turn at the podium with the BBC Philharmonic.

        Here's a bonus: David Nice reviews Paavo's Jarvi's first album with the CSO, Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique and “Love Scene” from Romeo et Juliette (Telarc).

        For a copy, check Joseph-Beth Booksellers in Norwood: 396-8960.

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