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STRAUSS Elektra
If there’s a lesson to be had from these first and most recent recordings of Elektra, made 66 years apart,...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 10/2012
Beethoven: Piano Concertos
With its sometimes diffuse structuring and recurrent strain of fantasy, Beethoven's C minor Piano Concerto—Arrau's recent recording of it completes...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 1/1989
O lux beata Trinitas
Clare College Choir, Cambridge | Graham Ross
And so Graham Ross and the Choir of Clare College, Cambridge, reach the end of their musical pilgrimage through the...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 07/2018
Beethoven Orchestral & Choral Works
Claudio Abbado | Maurizio Pollini | Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra | Vienna State Opera Concert Choir
It is probably not entirely coincidental that the two memorable performances from this latest instalment of Abbado's Beethoven cycle are...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 4/1988
Schubert Symphonies Nos 4 & 6
Riccardo Muti | Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
Schubert's symphonic slow movements seem on the whole to draw more from Muti than do Beethoven's, but then one would...
Reviewed by Stephen Johnson in issue: 3/1989
Mozart/R. Strauss Arias & Lieder
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra | Christine Schäfer | Claudio Abbado | Maria João Pires
Schafer must now be rated in the royal line of Schwarzkopf, Seefried, Ameling, Popp and most recently Bonney as an...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 4/1998
Beethoven in Berlin New Year's Eve Concert
''Die Mauer offnet sich''—''The wall opens up''—announces the Narrator at the start of the ''Melodrama'' in Beethoven's Incidental Music to...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 5/1992
Tchaikovsky Symphony No 6
French National Orchestra | Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra | Neeme Järvi | Riccardo Muti
A tale of two Pathétiques – that most personal and inspirational and innovative of all 19th-century symphonies. We’ve had some...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 13/2004
Verdi La Traviata
I have always found this a dramatically engrossing account of an opera that, for all its popularity, has always been...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 5/1985
Handel Water Music
For those who are not yet convinced about 'original instruments' and who still enjoy the sound of a full modern...
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 3/1985
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