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Brahms Serenade
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra | Claudio Abbado
This performance was first included in a box of seven records forming part of DG's 150th anniversary celebration of Brahms's...
Reviewed in issue 5/1987
Brahms Hungarian Dances
Claudio Abbado | Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
Robert Layton praised the playing or the original issue for its ''freshness and enthusiam'' and indeed found many of the...
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 8/1984
Brahms Choral and Orchestral Works
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra | Berlin Radio Chorus | Claudio Abbado
With this issue I am struck more than ever by the new character of the BPO under Abbado. Gone is...
Reviewed in issue 10/1991
Mozart Horn Concertos
Alessio Allegrini | Claudio Abbado | Mozart Orchestra
Horn tone mellifluous or rough-edged from Alessio Allegrini, but his orchestral counterparts in K417 and K495 are, like the woodwinds,...
Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 12/2011
SCHOENBERG Violin Concerto. Piano Concerto
Daniel Barenboim | Michael Barenboim | Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
‘Spiritual and not sentimental, intellectual and not emotional’ were Schoenberg’s performance values, according to the conductor Hermann Scherchen, and by...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 08/2015
BRUCKNER Symphony No 2. STRAUSS Der Bürger als Edelmann
Gerhard Oppitz | Riccardo Muti | Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
The recordings on this two-CD set originate from a concert at the Salzburg Festival celebrating Riccardo Muti’s 75th birthday. Both...
Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 03/2018
Schubert Symphonies
Riccardo Muti | Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
There is playing of great beauty and power in the Unfinished, as you'd expect, excepting the slightly ragged chording in...
Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 8/1991
Handel Water Music
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra | Riccardo Muti
On this CD the splendid sounds of the BPO can be enjoyed to the full. Helpfully, however, Muti does nod...
Reviewed in issue 9/1985
Messiaen Et Expecto Resurrectionem
Sony Classical have been remastering Boulez’s CBS recordings for some time – a Varese disc appeared six years ago (10/90)...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 7/1996
Pavarotti - The Early Years, Vol.1
Probably the unique penalty of singing as well as Pavarotti has been doing in his late fifties is that records...
Reviewed in issue 10/1995
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