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MERCADANTE I due Figaro
Operas that have been lost, suppressed or forgotten before their fair hearing have a special mystique, and Mercadante’s I due...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 10/2013
Bellini I Capuleti ed i Montecchi
I have no reason to moderate the inordinate praise I heaped on this set when it first appeared just over...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 2/1995
Prokofiev Piano Concertos
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra | Claudio Abbado | Evgeny Kissin
Kissin is an extraordinarily aware musician. And lest anyone suspect me of paying a backhanded compliment, let me say straight...
Reviewed in issue 12/1994
Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No 2; Paganini Rhapsody
Claudio Abbado | Mahler Chamber Orchestra | Yuja Wang
Every new release by this marvellously gifted pianist is eagerly anticipated, none more than this, billed as “her first concerto...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 6/2011
New Year's Concert 2000
Riccardo Muti | Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
The title Mit Extrapost ('By Special Post') of the final item in the first half of this New Year's Concert...
Reviewed by Andrew Lamb in issue: 3/2000
New Year's Concert 2021
Riccardo Muti | Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
There can have been no stranger occasion in the New Year’s Concert’s 80-year history than this: the Vienna Philharmonic playing...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 02/2021
Bartók Piano Concertos
Chicago Symphony Orchestra | Claudio Abbado | Maurizio Pollini
These two concertos, products of Bartok's most intransigent radicalism, have been well served on LP—notably by Anda, Bishop-Kovacevich and Ashkenazy....
Reviewed in issue 9/1986
Boulez in Rehersal
Pierre Boulez | Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
The hectic international conducting schedule maintained by Pierre Boulez over the past decade has resulted in several live performances on...
Reviewed by kYlzrO1BaC7A in issue: 7/2003
Rossini Moïse et Pharaon
Moïse et Pharaon, Rossini’s adaptation for the Paris Opéra of his 10-year-old Mosè in Egitto, is definitely meant to be...
Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 6/2006
Boulez Structures pour deux pianos
Alfons Kontarsky | Aloys Kontarsky
The title seems to say it all: this is music of pure form, embodying an all-embracing system by which, Boulez...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 6/1993
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