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Haydn Symphony 96; Sinfonia Concertante
Chamber Orchestra of Europe | Claudio Abbado
The Haydn Sinfonia Concertante, too often neglected for requiring such a full complement of soloists who need to rehearse together,...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 2/1988
Berg Wozzeck
Coarse conducting and highly approximate singing have been so readily excused in ‘difficult’ idioms such as Wozzeck’s that they became...
Reviewed in issue 4/2002
Berg Altenberg Lieder; Lulu Suite; Lyrische Suite
Claudio Abbado | Juliane Banse | Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
It is obviously high time that Claudio Abbado recorded Lulu. His account of the suite is ravishingly beautiful, with a...
Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 10/1996
Mussorgsky Orchestral and Choral Works
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra | Claudio Abbado | Eléna Zaremba | Prague Philharmonic Chorus
Abbado has recorded all this music before: Pictures for DG (3/89) and the rest for RCA with the LSO Chorus...
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 2/1995
Hindemith Kammermusiken
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra | Claudio Abbado | Kolja Blacher | Wolfram Christ
First impressions do not always prove reliable; when I first listened to this new Kammermusik No. 4 I was distinctly...
Reviewed in issue 12/1996
PIZZETTI Requiem ALLEGRI; MACMILLAN Miserere
Jeremy Backhouse | Vasari Singers
The thesis of this disc isn’t a new one but it is always a welcome approach and has been originally...
Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 01/2015
MacMillan Orchestral Works
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra | Jerzy Maksymiuk
This time the publicity doesn't exaggerate. The premiere of The Confession of Isobel Gowdie at the 1990 Proms was a...
Reviewed by Stephen Johnson in issue: 10/1992
MacMillan (The) Sacrifice
Commissioned by Welsh National Opera, The Sacrifice was premiered in Cardiff on September 22, 2007. The present, enormously involving performance...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 4/2010
MacMillan Quickening
Jointly commissioned in 1998 by the Philadelphia Orchestra and BBC Proms, Quickening is a 45-minute cantata to a text by...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 3/2009
Star of Heaven: The Eton Choirbook Legacy
(The) Sixteen | Harry Christophers
There can be few ensembles with such a close understanding of the late 15th-century music preserved in the Eton Choirbook...
Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 01/2019
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