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Review of (Les) Introuvables d' Alexis Weissenberg

(Les) Introuvables d' Alexis Weissenberg

Alexis Weissenberg | Chicago Symphony Orchestra | Georges Prêtre | Orchestre de Paris | Philadelphia Orchestra | Riccardo Muti | Seiji Ozawa

EMI Classics

This is Weissenberg’s personal selection, and a wide-ranging, richly fascinating choice it is too. No Schumann and none of his...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 9/2004

Review of Debussy Orchestral Works

Debussy Orchestral Works

CBC Symphony Orchestra | Chicago Symphony Orchestra | Claudio Abbado | Cleveland Orchestra | Eteri Gvazava | Evelyn Rothwell | Fritz Reiner | George Szell | Igor Stravinsky | John Barbirolli

Video Artists International

For some, the main attraction of Abbado in Lucerne will be the great Italian maestro conducting Debussy at the 2003...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 1/2005

Review of (The) Art of Anne Sofie von Otter

(The) Art of Anne Sofie von Otter

(Les) Musiciens du Louvre | (The) English Concert | (The) English Concert Choir | Academy of St Martin in the Fields | Anne Sofie von Otter | Bengan Jansson | Bengt Forsberg | Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra | Cheryl Studer | Chicago Symphony Orchestra

Deutsche Grammophon

Topically‚ the recital opens with two excerpts from Carmen. Visitors to Glyndebourne and viewers of the television relay will have...

Reviewed in issue 13/2002

Review of Günther Wand - My Life, My Music

Günther Wand - My Life, My Music

Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra | Chicago Symphony Orchestra | Claudio Abbado | Cologne Radio Symphony Orchestra | Günter Wand | Hermann Scherchen | Karel Ancerl | North German Radio Symphony Orchestra | Rafael Kubelík | Toronto Chamber Orchestra

TDK

Five very different conductors on four very different DVDs. That featuring Ancerl and Scherchen in rehearsal derives from two CBC...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 13/2005

Review of Dancing on a Volcano - Orchestral Works in the 20th Century Vol 1

Dancing on a Volcano - Orchestral Works in the 20th Century Vol 1

Anne Sofie von Otter | City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra | Felicity Palmer | Gidon Kremer | Jeanne Loriod | Rex Lawson | Simon Rattle

Arthaus Musik

The trouble I had persuading my parents to have their Sunday afternoon tea to a soundtrack of Simon Rattle and...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 12/2005

Review of Cascioli plays Beethoven & Schoenberg

Cascioli plays Beethoven & Schoenberg

Gianluca Cascioli

DG

If you came across these CDs in the racks and turned them over you might find the diversity of repertory...

Reviewed by Stephen Plaistow in issue: 7/1997

Review of Bernstein Live

Bernstein Live

Byron Janis | Collegiate Chorale | Eileen Farrell | Isaac Stern | Jacqueline du Pré | Jennifer Vyvyan | Jess Thomas | John Corigliano | John Wummer | Laszlo Varga

New York Philharmonic

It is 10 years since Leonard Bernstein died and his absence is keenly felt. Despite a public image at odds...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 3/2001

Review of Philadelphia Orchestra Centennial Collection

Philadelphia Orchestra Centennial Collection

Aaron Copland | Anneliese Rothenberger | Arturo Toscanini | Beverly Sills | Birgit Nilsson | Bruno Walter | Charles Munch | Daniel Barenboim | Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau | Dorothy Maynor

Philadelphia Orchestra Association

Another scrumptious transatlantic treat, and a victorious collaboration between two of America's most noted historic recording experts. Mark Obert-Thorn served...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 2/2000

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