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Mahler Symphony No 6
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra | Claudio Abbado
Whatever the revolution in playing standards since January 1966, when Barbirolli conducted Mahler’s Sixth in Berlin, I can’t remember hearing...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 9/2005
Mahler Symphony No 4
Claudio Abbado | Frederica von Stade | Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
Some revaluations are in order here so luminously clear is the sound of this digital re-mastering of Abbado's 1978 Vienna...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 11/1984
Mahler Symphonies Nos 2 & 4
In compiling their Claudio Abbado ‘cycle’ of Mahler symphonies (12/95), DG invariably chose the remake wherever an earlier Abbado version...
Reviewed in issue 12/1996
MOZART Oboe Concerto K314 HAYDN Sinfonia Concertante
One definition of Allegro aperto, the direction in the first movement of the Oboe Concerto, reads ‘an allegro with broad,...
Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 02/2015
Mahler Symphony No 9 – Abbado
Claudio Abbado | Lucerne Festival Orchestra
The fact that Mahler’s Ninth no longer presents a fierce challenge to orchestras and their musicians can bring losses as...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 6/2011
CHIHARA Concerto-Fantasy for Piano and Orchestra
London Symphony Orchestra | Quynh Nguyen | Rieko Aizawa | Stephen Barlow
It may come as a surprise that a composer as experienced as Paul Chihara (b1938) has not written more for...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 11/2023
PUCCINI La Rondine
La rondine is often dismissed (not least by me) as one of Puccini’s weaker operas, a sort of poor hybrid...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 07/2016
MAHLER Symphony No 10 (Gamzou)
International Mahler Orchestra | Yoel Gamzou
In the wake of Thomas Dausgaard’s remarkably cogent reading of the Deryck Cooke ‘performing version’ of Mahler’s Tenth Symphony, there...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 11/2016
TCHAIKOVSKY The Nutcracker
Cologne Gürzenich Orchestra | Dmitrji Kitajenko
The physical presentation of this Oehms Classics release in a standard slim jewel case isn’t going to win any prizes....
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 01/2017
TRAPANI Waterlines
Christopher Trapani is one of America’s musical prospects. Still in his thirties (just about), Trapani has studied at IRCAM, the...
Reviewed by Liam Cagney in issue: 07/2019
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