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Scriabin Symphony No 2; Tchaikovsky Hamlet
Philadelphia Orchestra | Riccardo Muti
''Help! Where can one hide from such music?'' Thus wrote Liadov about Scriabin's Second Symphony, and he was entrusted with...
Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 11/1990
Tchaikovsky Orchestral Works
With both these new issues of Tchaikovsky's Fourth the fill-ups, valuable and unexpected, are a prime consideration, particularly in relation...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 7/1991
Mozart Don Giovanni
This performance, from La Scala’s 1987 opening production, was almost the first operatic DVD ever to appear – in America...
Reviewed by mscott rohan in issue: 10/2004
MOZART The Magic Flute
Grand picture-book opera or inventive fringe theatre? The Magic Flute’s popularity has seen it inflated for stage spaces too big...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 05/2015
BRUCKNER Symphony No 9
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra | Simon Rattle
In an appreciative tribute to the four musicians who put together the ‘performing version’ of the finale featured on this...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 08/2012
Linda Richardson: Italian Opera Arias
John Wilson | Linda Richardson | Sinfonia of London
Between 1998 and 2010 Chandos issued, under its ‘Opera in English’ banner, a series of operatic recital discs featuring a...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 02/2021
ROSSINI William Tell
This 2013 ‘Rossini in Wildbad’ production of Guillaume Tell is probably as fine an achievement as any in the festival’s...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 06/2015
SCHUMANN Symphonies 1-4. 'Schumann at Pier 2'
Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie, Bremen | Paavo Järvi
This is the sort of set that makes me grateful that classical recordings are still being made. As a refresher...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 03/2013
WAGNER Der Ring des Nibelungen
Ever since Eduard Hanslick’s complaints of too much talk of steam and dragons (at Das Rheingold’s Munich premiere in September...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 01/2013
BERLIOZ Harold en Italie. Les nuits d’été (Roth)
François-Xavier Roth | Les Siècles | Stéphane Degout | Tabea Zimmermann
How delightful that François-Xavier Roth and Les Siècles have returned to Berlioz this year, the 150th anniversary of his death....
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 02/2019
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