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Violin Works
Chicago Symphony Orchestra | Claudio Abbado | Clifford Benson | Shlomo Mintz
Both concertos receive performances of strong personality and an impressive eloquence—and, it goes without saying, altogether impeccable technique. I see...
Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 12/1987
Hindemith Orchestral Works
The following choice phrases may look like the heavily doctored copy you find in Gramophone's advertising pages, but I assure...
Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 9/1992
Dvorák Symphony No 9; Othello Overture
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra | Claudio Abbado
The digital version of Dvorak's New World Symphony that I have found myself returning to most over recent months features...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 3/2000
Janácek From the House of the Dead
This Salzburg production of 1992, taken from the Grosses Festspielhaus, although at times insufficiently focused, does in the end convey...
Reviewed in issue 10/1995
Mussorgsky Khovanshchina
There is something more than usually unsatisfactory about watching a Mussorgsky opera on the small screen. His historical epics demand...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 9/2004
Mendelssohn Complete Symphonies; Overtures
It is in the choral Second Symphony that the advantage of the wide-ranging digital sound comes out most strikingly, in...
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SCHUMANN Symphony No 2. Overtures
Claudio Abbado | Mozart Orchestra
There is no shame in reaching the age of 80 without ever having released a Schumann symphony on disc, but...
Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: AW2013
A Rose Magnificat
Gabrieli Consort | Paul McCreesh
The soprano solo that opens Leighton’s Of a rose is all my song flowers out of frosty silence, gradually pushing...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 06/2018
Music for Henry V
Andrew Kirkman | Binchois Consort
The library of Wollaton Hall, Nottingham, was from the mid-16th century until 1924 the home of The Wollaton Antiphonal. This...
Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 13/2011
Mussorgsky Khovanshchina
''To Russians, Mussorgsky's music is an integral part of their cultural awareness and, like the novels of Dostoevsky, plagues them...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 11/1990
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