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Mussorgsky Pictures at an Exhibition. Stravinsky Firebird
Philadelphia Orchestra | Riccardo Muti
The current Gramophone Compact Disc Guide and Catalogue lists four versions of the Mussorgsky and four of the complete Firebird....
Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 4/1985
Schubert Symphony No. 9
Riccardo Muti | Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
My initial enthusiasm for Muti's Beethoven has cooled several degrees since I reviewed the First and Fifth Symphonies on LP...
Reviewed in issue 1/1988
R. Strauss Aus Italien; Don Juan
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra | Riccardo Muti
Someone at Philips had an inspiration in inviting Riccardo Muti to conduct Aus Italien with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra. This...
Reviewed in issue 9/1990
Berlioz Symphonie fantastique
Philadelphia Orchestra | Riccardo Muti
There seems no end to the number of powerful and impressive recordings of this favourite display work, and Muti's with...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 7/1985
CHASINS Complete Music For Piano Solo (Margarita Glebov)
Leopold Godowsky once bumped into the young Abram Chasins. ‘Is it true’, he asked, ‘that your Rush Hour in Hong...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 05/2023
Bellini I Puritani
Were I puritani to be produced as frequently as La boheme, one could still spend a lifetime of opera-going and...
Reviewed in issue 4/1989
Verdi La Traviata
An exciting and eloquent reading on all sides, this version must now be rated with the established frontrunners—but, as with...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 10/1993
Verdi La forza del destino
''It all comes down to this: who is to be the conductor?'' wrote Verdi to Giulio Ricordi about a Neapolitan...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 2/1987
MAHLER Das klagende Lied BERG Lulu-Suite
Boulez’s recordings become more precious the less we hear from him. He still has so much to say about the...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 08/2013
Verdi Messa da Requiem
If CSO Resound has released this 2009 performance of Verdi’s Requiem to showcase the Chicago Symphony Chorus, it might well...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 12/2010
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