Mahler Symphony No 1

Philadelphia Orchestra | Riccardo Muti

Not being a resident of Philadelphia, I'm in no position to say what the Philadelphia Orchestra really sounds like in...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 8/1984

Verdi Rigoletto

Andrea Rost | Antonella Trevisan | Antonio de Gobbi | Dimitri Kavrakos | Ernesto Gavazzi | Ernesto Panariello | Giorgio Giuseppini | Mariana Pentcheva | Marilena Laurenza | Milan La Scala Chorus

Muti's previous recording of this opera is only six years old. That was made with the forces of La Scala...

Reviewed in issue 12/1995

WAGNER Das Rheingold (Baleff)

Angel Hristov | Biser Georgiev | Blagovesta Mekki | Blagovesta Mekki-Tsvetkova | Daniel Ostretsov | Dimitrinka Raycheva | Dorotea Doroteeva | Irina Zhekova | Krasimir Dinev | Krastan Krastanov

In the run-up to the Wagner bicentenary in 2013, Plamen Kartaloff, director of the Sofia Opera, began to nurture a...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 09/2021

Verdi Nabucco

Ambrosian Opera Chorus | Anne Edwards | Elena Obraztsova | Kenneth Collins | Matteo Manuguerra | Nicolai Ghiaurov | Philharmonia Orchestra | Renata Scotto | Riccardo Muti | Robert Lloyd

I predicted in January that this set would soon find its way on to CD, and here it is. Listening...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 6/1987

Verdi Attila

Cheryl Studer | Ernesto Gavazzi | Giorgio Surian | Giorgio Zancanaro | Milan La Scala Chorus | Milan La Scala Orchestra | Neil Shicoff | Riccardo Muti | Samuel Ramey

Lamberto Gardelli's two readings of Attila, for Hungaroton/Conifer and Philips respectively, have such strongly contrasted basses in the title-role that...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 5/1990

Verdi (I) due Foscari and Attila

Alberto Cupido | Aldo Bottion | Aldo Bramante | Cheryl Studer | Ernesto Gavazzi | Gianandrea Gavazzeni | Giorgio Zancanaro | Kaludi Kaludov | Linda Roark-Strummer | Luigi Roni

I due Foscari won a respectful hearing on the occasion of this rare revival in 1988, with a warm reception...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 9/2005

Mozart Così fan tutte

Agnes Baltsa | Francisco Araiza | James Morris | José Van Dam | Kathleen Battle | Margaret Marshall | Riccardo Muti | Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra | Vienna State Opera Chorus

It seems that Cosi fan tutte is EMI's lucky opera. The recordings by Karajan, so recently reissued and given an...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 10/1983

Stravinsky Ballets

Academy of St Martin in the Fields | Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra | Neville Marriner | Philadelphia Orchestra | Riccardo Muti | Robert Lloyd | Robert Tear | Yvonne Kenny

A very reliable coupling for anyone wanting these six pieces. I have a reservation or two about Muti’s Rite of...

Reviewed in issue 8/2001

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau - Recordings from the Archives

Dig deep, dig wide, there will always be something left for the archaeologists and archivists of recording to come up...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 6/2010

DVOŘÁK Stabat Mater

Collegium Vocale Gent | Florian Boesch | Ilse Eerens | Maximillian Schmitt | Michaela Selinger | Philippe Herreweghe | Royal Flemish Philharmonic Orchestra

The Stabat mater – a 13th-century poem that describes in 20 verses the imagined sufferings of the Virgin Mary at...

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 07/2013