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Mozart and Haydn: Wind Concertos
Writing in last September's issue IM dismissed these concertos rather summarily after explaining how they came to be put down...
Reviewed in issue 9/1985
Berlioz Symphonie fantastique
The six CD versions of the Symphonie fantastique listed above present various problems of selection, difficult of summary. In brief...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 10/1985
Mozart Requiem
There are, I believe, more recordings of the Mozart Requiem in the catalogue than of any other major sacred work;...
Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 6/2000
Mahler Complete Symphonies
The current pre-eminence of Gustav Mahler in the concert-hall and on disc is not something that could have been anticipated...
Reviewed in issue 12/1995
Schumann Cello Concerto; Brahms Serenade No. 1
Claudio Abbado | Mahler Chamber Orchestra | Natalia Gutman
What I most enjoyed about this superbly engineered CD was the high level of musical interrelation that it more or...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 7/2007
Wagner Lohengrin
This is the first of three VHS versions of the opera to be reincarnated on DVD. That is surprising in...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 7/2003
Mozart Requiem. Laudate Dominum
This was a memorial concert for Herbert von Karajan, and true to his spirit, a large-scale ‘traditional’ performance, both in...
Reviewed by mscott rohan in issue: 8/2000
Mahler Symphony No 6. Rückert Lieder
Chicago Symphony Orchestra | Claudio Abbado | Hanna Schwarz
Mahler's Sixth Symphony has been finely treated on record, not least by Abbado. Occasionally, this searingly classical work has been...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 3/1989
JS BACH; MACMILLAN Motets and Sacred Songs
Singing Bach’s music, music director Nigel Short explains in his booklet essay, was one of his earliest – and happiest...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: AW23
Prokofiev/Tchaikovsky Piano Concertos
There is no finer version in any medium of the Tchaikovsky First Piano Concerto than Argerich's 1971 version. Her later...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 5/1985
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