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Carolin Widmann: Reflections
Carolin Widmann is an outstandingly enterprising artist at a time when many leading violinists are content to stick with the...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 02/2015
Rachmaninov Piano Concertos
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra | Claudio Abbado | Lilya Zilberstein
Still they come. The Rachmaninov Concertos notably Nos. 2 and 3, gain rather than decrease in popularity, and Lilya Zilberstein's...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 2/1995
Strauss, R Elektra (DVD)
I enjoyed, if that is the right word for Elektra’s gruesome drama, this performance of Strauss’s opera (taken from the...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 9/2000
Boulez Sur Incises & Anthemes II
Combine three pianos and three harps with a range of metal percussion, and the result is like a single, magically...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 1/2001
Donizetti Don Pasquale
Don Pasquale is a marvellous opera to come back to—there is always so much more to it than one has...
Reviewed by jswain in issue: 4/1984
Boulez Le marteau sans maître
By my reckoning this is Boulez's fourth recording of Le marteau sans maitre, and his first since one released in...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 10/1989
Benjamin Antara; J. Harvey Song Offerings; Boulez Orchestral Works
George Benjamin | London Sinfonietta | Penelope Walmsley-Clark | Sebastian Bell
All credit to Nimbus for this splendid contribution to contemporary music recordings, issued within a few months of the London...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 10/1989
Boulez Domaines
Diego Masson | Michel Portal | Musique Vivante Ensemble
More than a quarter of a century on from its premiere, Pli selon pli continues variously to perplex, tantalize and...
Reviewed in issue 3/1989
Boulez conducts Boulez
Though he may well disapprove of the designation, in ... explosante-fixe... Pierre Boulez has written one of the great flute...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 12/1995
Respighi Symphonic Poems
Philadelphia Orchestra | Riccardo Muti
Muti's red-blooded, Italianate performances, culminating in a riotously 'over-the-top' performance of Roman Festivals (last-composed and last on the disc), are...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 3/1986
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