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Mahler Symphony No 1
Philadelphia Orchestra | Riccardo Muti
The bloom on the Philadelphia Orchestra's tone is as well conveyed on CD as on LP; yet, for all his...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 12/1984
Tchaikovsky: Orchestral Works
The comparisons between these three new issues of the Pathetique are all the more fascinating, for being in fair measure...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 3/1991
Mozart Symphonies
Riccardo Muti | Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
These are powerful, mature-sounding performances and may be impressive as such, but I do not find them very congenial. The...
Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 3/1994
Beethoven Fidelio
It was Abbado’s second Berlin Philharmonic symphony cycle from 2001 which thrust him more or less unexpectedly into the ranks...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 9/2011
Crazy Girl Crazy
Barbara Hannigan | Ludwig Orchestra
One of music’s great risk-takers, Barbara Hannigan goes out on a limb with ‘Crazy Girl Crazy’, her debut album as...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 10/2017
Danish Piano Trios
The Danish Piano Trio | Trio Ismena
Two discs from two Danish ensembles coincide to chart the history of the piano trio in the country from its...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 01/2016
SAINT-SAËNS Symphonic Poems. Le Carnaval des animaux. L'Assassinat du duc de Guise (Roth)
François-Xavier Roth | Les Siècles
‘I produce music as an apple tree produces apples.’ What a fertile musical imagination Camille Saint-Saëns possessed. It’s easy to...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 12/2023
Verdi Macbeth
The best Macbeth, I think. It first appeared within a month or so of the Abbado/DG set and that was...
Reviewed in issue 5/1989
Tchaikovsky Symphonies
New Philharmonia Orchestra | Philharmonia Orchestra | Riccardo Muti
Recorded between 1975 and 1979 in excellent analogue sound, Muti's Tchaikovsky cycle with the Philharmonia is one of the most...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 9/1991
Verdi Falstaff
Up to now Muti and Abbado have studiously avoided tackling Verdi's late masterpieces. Now that is changing. Both conductors are...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 11/1994
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