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Verdi Simon Boccanegra
Here is a real treat for Verdians. Claudio Abbado’s absolute mastery of every aspect of the score is at the...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 3/2004
Leoncavallo I Pagliacci
The Philadelphia Orchestra has in it players of the highest calibre and it is good to hear them in this...
Reviewed in issue 4/1993
Rimsky-Korsakov Scheherazade
Philadelphia Orchestra | Riccardo Muti
Scheherazade is the kind of music one used to associate with the Philadelphia Orchestra in its early heyday under Stokowski...
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 8/1983
Boulez: Orchestral Works
Daniel Barenboim | Orchestre de Paris
Daniel Barenboim and Erato may regret having been pipped at the post by the recent reissue of Boulez's own recording...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 10/1990
Delius Lebenstanz. Irmelin Suite. Poem of Life and Love. A Village Romeo & Juliet
David Lloyd-Jones | Royal Scottish National Orchestra
Delius embarked upon Poem of Life and Love in 1918, periodically revisiting it until ill health intervened around 1925. Three...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 13/2011
Stravinsky Le Chant du Rossidnol. Mahler Symphony No 6. Webern Passacaglia. Variations.
Lucerne Festival Orchestra | Pierre Boulez
Not all composers have proved to be distinguished interpreters – even of their own works – but Pierre Boulez...
Reviewed by K Smith in issue: 13/2011
KUUSISTO; CORIGLIANO Violin Concertos
Elina Vähälä | Lahti Symphony Orchestra
Jaakko Kuusisto may be one of his generation’s leading violin virtuosos but he features here as composer and conductor, leaving...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 10/2013
MADERNA Violin Concerto. Piano Concerto
Arturo Tamayo | Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra | Markus Bellheim | Thomas Zehetmair
I’ve written before about Bruno Maderna’s Piano Concerto (1/11), my sense of it as a radical synthesis of everything good...
Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 11
BYRD Infelix ego
Collegium Vocale Gent | Philippe Herreweghe
Penitence might be the prevailing theme on this disc but there’s nothing penitential in the experience of this exquisite recording. Herreweghe...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 01/2015
RASKATOV Monk's Music
Emma Denton | Eoin Schmidt-Martin | Gordon Jones | Matthew Denton | Michelle Fleming
Those who attended English National Opera’s production of Alexander Raskatov’s A Dog’s Heart in 2010 and came out both repulsed...
Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 02/2015
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