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Berlioz Symphonie Fantastique; (La) Mort de Cléopâtre
Anna Caterina Antonacci | Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra | Yannick Nézet-Séguin
Recorded in Rotterdam in March 2010, this release arrived in London in between two LPO concerts of French repertoire by...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 5/2011
Leoncavallo I Pagliacci; Mascagni Cavalleria Rusticana
When these recordings first appeared, their didactic pretensions stimulated resistance. In Cavalleria rusticana it was as though the conductor had...
Reviewed in issue 3/1991
Dvorák Works for Violin & Orchestra
Kyung Wha Chung's first recording under her new EMI contract here comes up against formidable competition from the young Midori,...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 11/1989
Cherubini Messa Solenne in G
These recordings show us the same conductor at work on the music of one composer over a period of 15...
Reviewed by mberry in issue: 4/1989
Martucci La canzone dei ricordi;Piano Concerto,Op 66
Carlo Bruno | Mirella Freni | Orchestra Filarmonica della Scala | Riccardo Muti
Here is an ideal coupling for anyone who has been meaning to investigate Martucci, but has not yet got round...
Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 11/1996
Rota Piano Concertos
Giorgia Tomassi | Milan La Scala Philharmonic Orchestra | Riccardo Muti
The slow movement of Nino Rota's Piano Concerto in C is quite enchanting: a memorably suave melody, like Prokofiev at...
Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 4/2000
Italian Orchestral Works
Milan La Scala Philharmonic Orchestra | Riccardo Muti
Riccardo Muti takes time out here to present some of the lesser known, rarely heard orchestral scores of his fellow...
Reviewed by Michael Stewart in issue: 4/1994
Bruckner Symphony No 4
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra | Riccardo Muti
As the list above confirms, it is only three years since EMI recorded this symphony with the Berlin Philharmonic and...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 3/1986
Boulez/Dutilleux/Jolivet et al - Sonatines for Flute and Piano
Alexandre Tharaud | Philippe Bernold
Georges Barrere, for whose platinum flute Varese wrote his ground-breaking Densite 21.5 in 1936, had been the solo flautist in...
Reviewed by rnichols in issue: 3/2001
Berio; Boulez; Webern Saxophone Chamber Works
Ensemble Quærendo Invenietis | Renaud Déjardin | Vincent David
Pierre Boulez and Luciano Berio enjoyed a close working association from their early years in the often fractious post-war avant-garde,...
Reviewed by Richard_Whitehouse in issue: 7/2008
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