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Verdi Macbeth
Since it was last reissued on CD at full price in 1986, this EMI set has shed a disc and...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 2/1993
Tchaikovsky Orchestral Works
Kazuhiro Koizumi | Philadelphia Orchestra | Riccardo Muti | Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Muti and Koizumi both round off their series of the later Tchaikovsky symphonies in versions of No. 5 consistent with...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 7/1992
Verdi Aida
Riccardo Muti’s 1974 studio recording‚ with Caballé‚ Cossotto and Domingo‚ has been one of the steady recommendations for this work...
Reviewed in issue 13/2002
Verdi Pezzi sacre
This, the first version of these pieces to be submitted for review on CD, will be hard to surpass. I...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 3/1985
MOZART Così fan tutte (Hengelbrock. Harnoncourt)
With staged opera thin on the ground over the past year due to schedules wiped out by the pandemic, companies...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 08/2021
Schubert Orchestral Works
Riccardo Muti | Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
Not the spirited, open-air woodwind detailing in the Symphony's outer movements of Abbado, or his pointing of accents, but a...
Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 1/1994
Bach (6) Brandenburg Concertos
Bach reclaimed by “mainstream” musicians is always welcome, never more so than when the director is so intent on projecting...
Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 6/2011
Beethoven Symphonies Nos 4 & 7
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra | Claudio Abbado
In a useful accompanying documentary, Claudio Abbado admits that his Beethoven style has evolved over time. He now places much...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 13/2003
Cherubini/Verdi Requiems
This is surely among the top ten versions of Verdi’s much-recorded work, if not among the top five. Apart from...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 7/1996
Mozart Symphonies 35 & 38
Riccardo Muti | Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
It was only last October that I reviewed the last of Muti’s Vienna recordings of Mozart symphonies, coupling the Paris...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 8/1999
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