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Widor Piano Concertos 1 & 2
A mere five minutes or so of Widor’s prolific output has come to define and pigeonhole him. So popular has...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 1/2012
BRAHMS Violin Concerto. Piano Concerto No 1
This latest issue on the Royal Concertgebouw’s own label is a celebration of its honorary conductor, Bernard Haitink. As a...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 06/2017
RAFF Piano Works Vols 1 & 2
Until four years ago, only a handful of the more than 130 works Raff composed for solo piano were readily...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 10/2012
KALABIS Symphonies Nos 2 & 3. Concertos
Sadly, even the name, let alone the music, of Viktor Kalabis (1923-2006) will be unknown to most readers, yet he...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 07/2013
Anna Netrebko - Sempre libera
In this ambitious programme, Anna Netrebko saves her very best for the last – and the best – music. Her...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 13/2004
Mahler Symphony No 3
Mahler’s Third Symphony was first recorded commercially in 1951‚ but it was not until the 1960s that the composer was...
Reviewed in issue 7/2002
Wagner Orchestral Works
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra | Claudio Abbado
Abbado conducts a strong performance of the Tannhäuser overture, with the pilgrims pacing on their way in a particularly solemn...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 11/2003
Mahler Symphony No 5
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra | Claudio Abbado
The Adagietto is suddenly, almost imperceptibly, there. It is the hallmark of any great performance of the symphony, and Abbado...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 12/1993
Mahler Symphonies Nos 9 & 10
Claudio Abbado | Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
Like Inbal's admirable Denon recording, this Abbado DG issue pairs the Ninth Symphony with the Adagio of the Tenth (not...
Reviewed in issue 8/1988
Schubert Symphonies 5 & 8
After the record-breaking slowness of Bernstein's recent records of both Tchaikovsky's Pathetique and Dvorak's New World Symphonies, I was apprehensive...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 1/1990
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