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Dvorák Symphony No 8
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra | Claudio Abbado
The pleasures here are considerable. As one would predict, the Berliners display an artistry and discipline that silence criticism; Abbado's...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 2/1995
Mendelssohn Complete Symphonies, etc
Claudio Abbado's 1968 coupling with the LSO of Mendelssohn's two most popular symphonies, the Scottish, No. 3 and the Italian,...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 1/1986
Ravel Daphnis et Chloé; Valses nobles et sentimentales
Claudio Abbado | London Symphony Chorus (amateur) | London Symphony Orchestra
This brilliantly played new version of the complete Daphnis ballet starts with two very practical advantages over the outstanding version...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 4/1990
Ravel: Orchestral Works
Claudio Abbado | London Symphony Orchestra
A compilation of Ravel reissues from DG's current premium conductor, which, no doubt, explains that Company's premium price. The sophistication...
Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 7/1991
Mendelssohn A Midsummer Night's Dream (incidental music)
It makes an attractive package having Mendelssohn’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream music, dramatically presented (with Kenneth Branagh taking every role...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 5/1997
Andreae Chamber Works Vol 3
Fali Pavrí | Locrian Ensemble of London | Rita Manning
Back in February 2010 I praised an earlier issue by the Locrian Ensemble of music by Swiss composer Volkmar Andreae...
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 5/2011
KEELING Unquiet Earth
Bingham Quartet | Contact | Steve Bingham | Valen Trio
Anyone familiar with the name of Andrew Keeling might well be so through a context other than his music, not...
Reviewed by Richard_Whitehouse in issue: AW/2012
SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No 15, Op 141
(Royal) Concertgebouw Orchestra, Amsterdam | Bernard Haitink
Conscious summation or not, Shostakovich’s Fifteenth is one of the most inscrutable symphonic masterworks in the repertoire. As the composer...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 02/2012
d'INDY L'Étranger
This is a real rarity: an opera by Vincent d’Indy, composer, co founder of the Schola Cantorum in Paris, editor...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 04/2014
GUERAU Complete Works for Guitar
Recorded between 2010 and 2013, the three discs that comprise this box-set open up for the listener a strange, intricate...
Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 05/2014
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