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Brahms Piano Concerto 1
The D minor Concerto has often cast a special spell over its interpreters. The late Glenn Gould suggested that with...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 11/1987
Prokofiev Symphonies
Philadelphia Orchestra | Riccardo Muti
Rarely can the Philadelphia sheen have sounded so utterly indecent. It's just what Prokofiev ordered—that decadent juxtaposition of the intensely...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 2/1993
WOLF Complete Songs Vol 1
Anna Grevelius | James Gilchrist | Sholto Kynoch | Sophie Daneman | Stephan Loges
It is a bold venture for the young company Stone Records to set out to record the songs of Hugo...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 01/2012
MENDELSSOHN Elias
Of Mendelssohn’s works only the Scottish and Italian symphonies had a longer, more fraught gestation than Elijah. The composer wanted...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 03/2017
WEINBERG The Passenger (Dohnányi)
This gripping production from Yekaterinburg was the belated Russian stage premiere of Weinberg’s most celebrated work, the ‘Holocaust’ opera Passazhirka....
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 09/2018
CARTER Late Works
The late works of Elliott Carter (1908 2012) are so numerous as to constitute an output on their own. Just...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 09/2017
YSAŸE Six Solo Violin Sonatas (Sergey Khachatryan)
The brilliant Armenian violinist Sergey Khachatryan treats us to yet another superb set of the Ysaÿe Solo Sonatas, vibrant, forceful,...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 05/2024
Brahms Piano Concerto No.2
Alfred Brendel | Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra | Claudio Abbado
I suspect there are many people who will want this new recording of Brahms's B flat Piano Concerto as a...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 6/1992
Mahler Symphony No 4
Claudio Abbado | Lucerne Festival Orchestra | Magdalena Kozená
That Claudio Abbado should be ending his career delivering standard repertoire as super-refined chamber music to the well-heeled has unsettled...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 2/2011
Claudio Abbado in Rehersal
What we have here is a German film of Abbado preparing two performances of the Requiem at Milan in 1985....
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 11/2002
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