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Songbook
This CD has a mouth-watering programme of sacred and secular music, old and new. Familiar items by Bach/Gounod, Purcell and...
Reviewed by Christopher Nickol in issue: 13/2011
Mozart (The) Violin Concertos
Claudio Abbado | Danusha Waskiewicz | Giuliano Carmignola | Mozart Orchestra
Virtuoso “violinism” and energising direction notwithstanding, neither Giuliano Carmignola nor Claudio Abbado seems inspired by the B flat Concerto, K207....
Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 9/2008
WAGNER Arias and Excerpts
Andrew Litton | Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra | James Rutherford
It is less than a decade since James Rutherford won the inaugural Seattle Opera International Wagner competition but he has...
Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 09/2014
GAUBERT Works for Violin, Cello
Henri Demarquette | Jean-Marc Phillips-Varjabédian | Marie-Josèphe Jude
The booklet-note by no means downplays the promise of this disc. ‘One will discover with stupefaction an authentic masterpiece,’ it...
Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 06/2014
FAGERLUND Violin Concerto. Ignite
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra | Hannu Lintu | Pekka Kuusisto
This is BIS’s third disc devoted to the music of the Finn Sebastian Fagerlund (b1972). David Fanning was not wholly...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 05/2015
RASKATOV Piano Concerto STRAVINSKY Rite of Spring
Ludovic Morlot | Seattle Symphony Orchestra | Tomoko Mukaiyama
Alexander Raskatov is probably best known for his opera based on Bulgakov’s Gogol-like tale The Heart of a Dog, which...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 06/2015
Beethoven; Shostakovich String Quartets
While the composer himself was reluctant to break faith with the technically less proficient Beethoven Quartet, concert-goers and record buyers...
Reviewed in issue 06/2012
Cherubini Mass No 1
No conductor is quite so persuasive an interpreter of Cherubini as Riccardo Muti. Starting in 1980 with the best-known of...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 11/2003
Boulez; Webern Chamber Works
Jean-Louis Leleu | Parisii Quartet
The significance of this recording may not be immediately obvious‚ yet it is a musthave for anyone with an interest...
Reviewed in issue 4/2002
SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No 13 (Muti)
Alexey Tikhomirov | Chicago Symphony Chorus | Chicago Symphony Orchestra | Riccardo Muti
There are American ensembles with a more sustained Shostakovich tradition than the Chicago Symphony but the present recording, taken from...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 04/2020
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