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DAVIS Napoléon
It will come as little surprise that Beethoven’s Eroica, the symphony he originally dedicated to Napoleon, looms large in Carl...
Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 03/2017
DOVE; MARTIN; WEIR Choral Works
Peter Holder | Westminster Abbey Choir
Despite the dire predictions of certain doom-mongers, the quality of British liturgical choral music commissioned in the past few years...
Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 03/2022
MILO
Born in 1981, Guy Johnston was a chorister at King’s College, Cambridge, before studying cello at Chetham’s School in Manchester...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 10/2010
Rachmaninov plays Rachmaninov
Reviewing Ashkenazy's most recent Rachmaninov Third (with Haitink and the Concertgebouw, Decca 417 239-2DH, 11/86) I made passing mention of...
Reviewed in issue 10/1988
Schubert Orchestrated Lieder
Anne Sofie von Otter | Chamber Orchestra of Europe | Claudio Abbado | Thomas Quasthoff
Schubert himself orchestrated only one of these songs, the Romance from Rosamunde. The other arrangers are Berlioz, Brahms, Britten, Liszt,...
Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 7/2003
Brahms Orchestral and Choral Works
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra | Berlin Radio Chorus | Claudio Abbado
This disc is planned so that we hear the two shorter works first. Abbado's interpretation of the Haydn Variations is...
Reviewed in issue 4/1992
Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No.1
Claudio Abbado | Ivo Pogorelich | London Symphony Orchestra
Those wanting a new digital recording of Tchaikovsky's B flat minor Piano Concerto could well be satisfied with this, but...
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 6/1986
MOZART Requiem
‘The Lucerne Festival 2012 has begun with a wonder,’ whispered Die Zeit, as quoted on the packaging for Abbado’s DVD...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 11/2013
Silence and Music
Gabrieli Consort | Paul McCreesh
If you look back through the Gabrieli Consort’s discography you can see a new trend emerging. Among the large-scale works...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 10/2017
VERDI Un ballo in maschera
Orfeo here rounds up once more a production’s cast long known to collectors in both sound (numerous dealer labels) and...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 07/2016
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