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WEBER Clarinet Concerto. Grand duo concertant
Aziz Shokhakimov | Berlin German Symphony Orchestra | Jean-Frédéric Neuburger | Raphaël Sévère
Following discs of Brahms and Hindemith on Mirare, Raphaël Sévère – 21 at the time of this recording – turns...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 01/2018
BRAHMS; CARTER Clarinet Quintets
Anna Urrey | Mark Lieb | Phoenix Ensemble
This is a disc of two halves. It opens with the greatest clarinet quintet ever penned and then abruptly switches...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 01/2019
Hindemith/ Janácek/ Prokofiev Orchestral Works
Claudio Abbado | London Symphony Orchestra
Abbado’s mature style ‘in embryo’ together with a fairly impressive example of what Decca could achieve at the Kingsway Hall...
Reviewed in issue 3/1997
Stravinsky Pulcinella; Jeu de Cartes
Claudio Abbado | John Shirley-Quirk | London Symphony Orchestra | Ryland Davies | Teresa Berganza
Abbado conducts Pulcinella with a good deal of vigour, persuading his smallish group from the LSO to some very adroit,...
Reviewed in issue 1/1989
Debussy Nocturnes
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra | Claudio Abbado
No one could sensibly expect a French sound from these forces, and on their own terms they produce much that...
Reviewed by rnichols in issue: 4/2003
Haydn: Symphonies
Chamber Orchestra of Europe | Claudio Abbado
Hearing Abbado and the Chamber Orchestra of Europe perform Symphony No. 93 at a Barbican Hall concert in London in...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 5/1991
SCHUBERT 'Great' Symphony
Claudio Abbado | Mozart Orchestra
There was a time when Schubert’s Great C major Symphony seemed an interpretatively elusive work, which explains why such store...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 07/2015
SCHUBERT Symphonies Nos 5 & 8 (Abbado)
Claudio Abbado | Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
How Schubert’s Fifth is played (and heard) in concert depends heavily on where it’s placed (Sibelius’s Seventh is another symphony...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 03/2019
New Year's Eve Concert 1992
I found this a distressing experience. Strauss's pieces can have seldom been played with such virtuosity, even by the same...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 7/1993
Mozart (Die) Zauberflöte
Had this new set been to hand when I discussed all versions of Die Zauberflöte in January, it would have...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 6/2006
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