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Mozart Le nozze di Figaro
This, I'm afraid, is one Figaro too many. It adds little in the way of perception or insight to an...
Reviewed by hfinch in issue: 10/1987
Mozart Violin Concertos Nos. 4 & 5
Edward Greenfield gave a warm welcome to Anne-Sophie Mutter's LP coupling of the two D major Concertos. They have splendid...
Reviewed in issue 3/1984
Mozart Symphonies 25 & 39
Riccardo Muti | Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
The very opening of the slow introduction to No. 39 makes it abundantly clear that Muti has no thought of...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 10/1998
Liszt A Faust Symphony
Gösta Winbergh | Philadelphia Orchestra | Riccardo Muti | Westminster College Choir
Riccardo Muti's performance of Liszt's orchestral masterpiece is in many respects admirable in its synthesis of drama, introspection and diablerie;...
Reviewed by mjameson in issue: 10/1991
Chopin/Liszt Piano Concertos
Claudio Abbado | London Symphony Orchestra | Martha Argerich
This is early vintage Argerich but the sound has transferred well to CD. She is balanced rather noticeably forward in...
Reviewed in issue 4/1985
Bach Brandenburg Concertos Nos 1-6
Claudio Abbado | Mozart Orchestra
Claudio Abbado’s Mozart recordings with Orchestra Mozart (Archiv, A/08) were among the most pleasant surprises of last year, an inspiring...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 4/2009
Verdi Rigoletto
This performance left me essentially unmoved. For all Muti's adherence to the letter of the score its spirit curiously eludes...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 11/1989
Mozart Symphonies
These three new versions of Mozart's Jupiter are as strongly contrasted with each other as could be, and each is...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 5/1989
Verdi Trovatore (Il)
‘Come scritto’ – as written – has been the philosophy behind all Muti’s opera performances. Here‚ giving the first Trovatores...
Reviewed in issue 5/2002
Verdi I vespri siciliani
This is the most exciting new set of a Verdi opera for a very long time. It is justification, if...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 1/1991
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