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Tchaikovsky/Glazunov Violin Concertos
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra | Claudio Abbado | Maxim Vengerov
Following up his Record of the year in the Gramophone Awards, Maxim Vengerov here offers another winner. In Tchaikovsky and...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 11/1995
Verdi Overtures
Claudio Abbado | London Symphony Orchestra
When this record first came out it was of interest for a number of reasons: the rarity of some of...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 5/1984
Brahms Choral Works
This reissue fills an important gap in that no other recording of Rinaldo is available. Critical response to this cantata...
Reviewed in issue 9/1992
Mozart Piano Concertos
Claudio Abbado | London Symphony Orchestra | Rudolf Serkin
Nearly a year ago Rudolf Serkin, in his eightieth year, was featured as soloist with the LSO under Claudio Abbado,...
Reviewed by rgolding in issue: 8/1983
Boulez Le marteau sans maître
B. Tommy Andersson | KammarensembleN
Not just a commemoration of a live event, but a vivid demonstration of collective virtuosity. Gerard Grisey’s Talea has an...
Reviewed by kYlzrO1BaC7A in issue: 10/1998
Shostakovich Orchestral Works
Philadelphia Orchestra | Riccardo Muti
As Charles Ives once said, the music is not in the notes. Riccardo Muti finds this music only fleetingly in...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 12/1993
Alexander Soares: Notations & Sketches
Although most of these pieces have been collated on various anthologies of French piano music, few of them can match...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 05/2019
Prokofiev Romeo and Juliet - excerpts
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra | Claudio Abbado
Like, I suspect, a good many readers, I have long cherished Claudio Abbado’s 1966 Romeo and Juliet selection with the...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 3/1998
MACMILLAN; TAVENER; VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Choral works (O’Donnell)
Peter Holder | Westminster Abbey Choir
James O’Donnell masterminds an account of Vaughan Williams’s Mass in G minor to rank alongside the finest to have come...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 09/2023
Mozart Piano Concertos
Chamber Orchestra of Europe | Claudio Abbado | Maria João Pires
It is clear from the opening of the G major Concerto that Claudio Abbado and the Chamber Orchestra of Europe...
Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 2/1996
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