Vladimir Jurowski: 10 Years

Unlike many of his colleagues, Vladimir Jurowski has always been a records man. The Russian-born conductor freely admits to Andrew...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 11/2017

Piatti Quartet: Albion Refracted

Piatti Quartet

I believe this is the Piatti Quartet’s first full ‘unaccompanied’ release. They collaborated with Gottlieb Wallisch on a disc of...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 11/2018

800 Sinfonico Italiano

Milan La Scala Philharmonic Orchestra | Riccardo Muti

It makes an apt, if rather ungenerous, coupling having the long-buried pieces by Ponchielli (Puccini’s teacher) and Catalani (his contemporary...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 9/1998

Verdi Overtures & Preludes

Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra | Claudio Abbado

Abbado conducts the Berlin Philharmonic in performances at once polished and impulsive, as the overture to La forza del destino...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 9/1999

Mozart Symphonies Nos 23 and 36; Sinfonia Concertante,K364

Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra | Claudio Abbado | Rainer Kussmaul | Wolfram Christ

Like the three discs of Mozart that Abbado has recorded previously for Sony with the Berlin Philharmonic (3/92, 3/94 and...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 9/1996

Brahms Violin Concerto; Double Concerto

Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra | Claudio Abbado | Gil Shaham | Jian Wang

This generous coupling of Brahms’s two concertos for stringed instruments has become relatively common in the age of CD thanks...

Reviewed in issue 8/2002

Schumann Symphonies 2 & 3

Riccardo Muti | Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra

Were it not for a memory bank crammed full of stronger options, I probably would have enjoyed these worthy performances...

Reviewed in issue 8/1996

Rachmaninov Elegy Op 3. 6 Preludes Op 32. Piano Concerto No 3 Op 30

Mikhail Pletnev | Russian National Symphony Orchestra | Vladimir Feltsman

Confusingly, the disc gives top billing to Vladimir Feltsman (b1952, Moscow) on an album entitled “A Tribute to Rachmaninoff”, with...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 10/2011

Mahler Lieder

Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra | Katarina Karnéus | Susanna Mälkki

These recordings were made between June 2007 (Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen) and August 2010 (R¸ckert-Lieder) and I rather wish I...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 10/2011

Neapolitan Cello Concertos

(I) Turchini | Antonio Florio | Giovanni Sollima

In 2010 we had Neapolitan flute concertos from Auser Musici (Hyperion, 4/10), and very nice they were too. Now here...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 08/2012