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WEINBERG The Passenger (Kluttig)
Half the action of The Passenger takes place in the hell-on-earth of Auschwitz and the other half in the false...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 10/2022
DVORÁK The Complete Piano Works (Ivo Kahanek)
Doubtless you’ve heard, or at the very least heard of, Dvořák’s Slavonic Dances. But his Scottish Dances? They turn out...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 12/2021
Prokofiev Orchestral Works
Philadelphia Orchestra | Riccardo Muti
Muti's Prokofiev is of excellent pedigree: I've heard outstanding accounts of the Third Symphony and Nevsky from him, on disc...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 7/1991
Schumann & Sibelius Violin Concertos
Gidon Kremer | Philharmonia Orchestra | Riccardo Muti
This newest, digital recording of the Sibelius concerto is a vibrantly extrovert reading, played with easy virtuosity by Kremer. Muti...
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 10/1983
Verdi Un Ballo in maschera
Well sung as the Solti/Decca set may be, I find this 1981 recording a far more satisfying and unified performance...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 9/1986
Brahms Ein Deutsches Requiem (DVD)
This performance in Vienna in 1997 marked the centenary of Brahms’s death. Abbado, daringly taking his Berlin orchestra to the...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 9/2000
Mahler Symphony No 7
Chicago Symphony Orchestra | Claudio Abbado
Abbado' s view of Mahler's Seventh Symphony, like Haitink's on Philips, is judicious and clear-sighted. The playing of the Chicago...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 3/1985
Wagner Gala - New Year's Eve Concert 1993
This New Year's Eve concert is a notable improvement on its Strauss predecessor of 1992 (Sony, 7/93)-at least as far...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 5/1994
MOZART Piano Concertos Nos 20 & 25
Claudio Abbado | Martha Argerich | Mozart Orchestra
A disc of Mozart piano concertos recorded in concert by Martha Argerich with Claudio Abbado and Orchestra Mozart was always...
Reviewed in issue 03/2014
Brahms Piano Concerto No 1
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra | Claudio Abbado | Maurizio Pollini
Maurizio Pollini’s earliest recordings of the Brahms concertos were made in Vienna in the mid and late 1970s with Bohm...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 4/1999
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