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VERDI Un ballo in maschera
In the last decade or so Covent Garden has hosted two pretty dismal passes at Verdi’s conspiracy thriller – three...
Reviewed by Neil Fisher in issue: 07/2017
Three Journeys Through Dark Landscapes - Orchestral Music in the 20th Century, Vol 4
Last things first. The final volume of these valuable Channel 4 documentaries is also the least cogent. As Simon Rattle...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 7/2006
Schumann & Weber Works for Piano & Orchestra
Alfred Brendel | Claudio Abbado | London Symphony Orchestra
I think that the deciding factor here is what coupling you want, for in their different ways all three performances...
Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 3/1986
Ravel: Orchestral Works
Claudio Abbado | London Symphony Orchestra | Martha Argerich | Michel Béroff
This Argerich/Abbado performance of Ravel's G major Concerto isn't all that new, dating as it does from February 1984. But...
Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 2/1989
Kitty Whately: This Other Eden
Brian O'Kane | Joseph Middleton | Kevin Whately | Kitty Whately | Magnus Johnston | Navarra Quartet
Since winning the Kathleen Ferrier Award in 2011, mezzo-soprano Kitty Whately has been gradually building her reputation in both concert...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 05/2015
Vivaldi The Four Seasons
Vivaldi's Four Seasons keep coming around much more frequently than their meteorological equivalents; one might age perceptibly while counting the...
Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 1/1986
Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No 2; Paganini Rhapsody
Cécile Licad | Chicago Symphony Orchestra | Claudio Abbado
Since Cecile Licad is virtually unknown in this country (though she has appeared here once with this same concerto) it...
Reviewed in issue 5/1984
Debussy Pelléas et Mélisande
Pelleas is one of those operas fortunate enough to 'record well'—certainly there has rarely been a time when at least...
Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 3/1992
Schumann Piano Concerto; Introduction and Allegro
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra | Claudio Abbado | Murray Perahia
Whereas Perahia’s 1989 release of Schumann’s Piano Concerto (an excitingly vivid live recording with Sir Colin Davis) had Grieg’s as...
Reviewed in issue 1/1998
Bartók Piano Concertos Nos 1 & 2; Two Portraits
Maurizio Pollini’s hard-hitting approach works best in the First Concerto, where the Chicago players circle the pianist like a street...
Reviewed in issue 9/1999
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