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Prelude, Fnugg and Riffs
Christian Lindberg | Øystein Baadsvik | Swedish Wind Ensemble
More fun to play than to listen to is one of the hoariest clichés about symphonic wind band music. Whether...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 5/2008
Brahms Symphony No.2; Alto Rhapsody
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra | Claudio Abbado | Ernst Senff Chorus | Marjana Lipovsek
How pleasant it is to be able to welcome a new recording of a Brahms symphony with almost total enthusiasm....
Reviewed in issue 2/1990
BRAHMS Symphony No 4 MACMILLAN Larghetto for Orchestra (Honeck)
Manfred Honeck | Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra
Now into the 14th season of a projected 20-year stint as music director of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Manfred Honeck...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 11/2021
Orchestral works
Chicago Symphony Orchestra | Claudio Abbado | New England Conservatory Chorus
I acquired the Debussy/Ravel part of this issue in 1971 on the recommendation of RL (oddly for a single disc,...
Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 9/1986
Prokofiev/Ravel Piano Concertos
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra | Claudio Abbado | Martha Argerich
There have been others to match the bustle and brilliance of Argerich's Prokofiev, her coloristic range, her drive, her flashiness,...
Reviewed in issue 12/1995
Verdi Opera Duets
This long, fascinating, highly ambitious recital, nothing less than a conspectus of Verdi’s soprano-tenor duets, is executed with distinction on...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 11/1998
Mussorgsky Pictures; Stravinsky Petrushka
Claudio Abbado | Leslie Howard | London Symphony Orchestra
Abbado's splendid Petrushka was among the very first CDs to be reviewed in these pages. Robert Layton extended a warm...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 3/1989
Schubert: Fierabras
Schubert began at least 16 operas; he completed only half of them; only one of these was performed in his...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 10/1990
Mozart Piano Concertos
Claudio Abbado | Maria João Pires | Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
Maria-Joao Pires has recorded these concertos before, for Erato, and this experience shows in assured playing. In K449 I find...
Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 3/1994
MOZART Sinfonia concertante K297b. Concerto for flute & harp, K299
With soloists from his own Orchestra Mozart, Claudio Abbado here demonstrates formidably their virtuosity and sensitivity in two of Mozart’s...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue:
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