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Pavarotti sings Verdi
Antonio Savastano | Claudio Abbado | Luciano Pavarotti | Milan La Scala Orchestra
This is an entry in the Pavarotti discography which it is easy to forget and very well worth remembering. Though...
Reviewed in issue 6/1987
Mahler Symphony No 3. Klagende Lied
Of these four CD transfers, the finest in terms of recorded quality are unquestionably Abbado's and Tilson Thomas's Abbado's LP...
Reviewed in issue 11/1988
PROKOFIEV Suite from Romeo and Juliet
Chicago Symphony Orchestra | Riccardo Muti
As I write, Riccardo Muti and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra are embarking on their fifth European tour. Their relationship has...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 12/2014
Schumann Concertos
If ever a performance of Schumann's Piano Concerto stressed the principle of dialogue between soloist and conductor, then this is...
Reviewed in issue 8/1993
Franck Orchestral Works
Muti relishes laying the curse on the huntsman with an (unmarked) mighty broadening for its final damning chords (from 11'04''),...
Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 9/1993
Rachmaninov Works for Piano and Orchestra
Andrei Gavrilov | Philadelphia Orchestra | Riccardo Muti
The Concerto appears a year after, but was recorded six months before, Gavrilov's live Moscow performance (also on EMI). Not...
Reviewed in issue 10/1991
Mahler Symphony No 5
Claudio Abbado | Lucerne Festival Orchestra
Having been a little disappointed by Claudio Abbado’s recent DVD version of Mahler’s Ninth (Euroarts, 3/05), it’s a pleasure to...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 9/2005
Brahms Piano Concerto 2
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra | Claudio Abbado | Maurizio Pollini
Taken live from a Berlin concert in 1995 Pollini’s and Abbado’s Brahms Second is among the most formidably single-minded on...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 4/1998
Mozart Mass, K139
Is there, perhaps, a hint of the overkill about a recording by Abbado and the Vienna Philharmonic of a work...
Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 8/1989
Verdi Don Carlos
Don Carlos in French at last! That is news to rejoice the hearts of all true Verdians. So will this...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 12/1985
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