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SALIERI Europa riconosciuta
Milan’s famous Teatro alla Scala was inaugurated on August 3, 1778 with a production of Salieri’s new serious opera Europa...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 05/2017
BRUCKNER Symphony No 9 (Muti)
Chicago Symphony Orchestra | Riccardo Muti
The Chicago Symphony Orchestra has a long tradition of performing Bruckner’s music, the Fourth Symphony having featured in concert as...
Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 08/2017
Bruckner Symphony No. 6
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra | Riccardo Muti
Bernard Haitmk told me some weeks ago that since leaving the Concertgebouw Orchestra he has conducted relatively little Bruckner, principally...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 12/1988
MacMillan (The) World's Ransoming; (The) Confession of Isobel Gowdie
Christine Pendrill | Colin Davis | London Symphony Orchestra
Sir Colin Davis and the LSO bring out the mainstream qualities of James MacMillan’s orchestral music. With such assured playing,...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 3/2008
Holst (The) Planets; Matthews, C Pluto
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra | Berlin Radio Chorus | Simon Rattle
Near the beginning of his EMI career Simon Rattle recorded his first The Planets. It is excellent, but next to...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 10/2006
SAARIAHO Chamber Works for Strings
Anna Laakso | Marko Myöhänen | Meta4
Ondine here continues its invaluable Saariaho survey, this time with string chamber works from 1987 to 2010. The earliest of...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 10/2013
Boulez Rituel in memoriam Bruno Maderna; Notations
David Robertson | Lyon National Orchestra
You don’t often hear recordings of Boulez’s music under someone else’s direction. Among the significant exceptions are two of the...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 10/2003
SCHOENBERG Kol Nidre SHOSTAKOVICH Suite on Verses of Michelangelo Buonarroti
Schoenberg’s 1938 setting of the Jewish prayer of atonement certainly succeeds in its aim to ‘vitriolise out the cello sentimentality...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 12/2016
MacMillan St John Passion
Christopher Maltman | Colin Davis | London Symphony Chorus (amateur) | London Symphony Orchestra
An 80th-birthday gift for Sir Colin Davis, James MacMillan’s 90-minute setting of the St John Passion divides into two parts...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 6/2009
CLEMENTI Piano Sonatas (Giacomo Scinardo; Soyeon Kate Lee)
Muzio Clementi’s 250th birthday was celebrated in 2002 with scholarly conferences in Perugia and Rome. Two years earlier, Ut Orpheus,...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 04/2020
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