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Schoenberg/Webern Orchestral Works
Claudio Abbado | Gottfried Hornik | Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra | Vienna State Opera Chorus
These recordings, made in Vienna between 1989 and 1992, are technically superb; DG manage an even finer blend of clarity...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 5/1993
Beethoven Edition, Vol.18 - Secular Vocal Works
In this, the 18th of their 20-volume edition, DG’s compilers and consultants are delving deep into Beethoven’s barrel, and at...
Reviewed in issue 13/1997
Mozart/Debussy/Takemitsu Works for Clarinet & Orchestra
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra | Claudio Abbado | Sabine Meyer
Sabine Meyer here returns as soloist to play with the orchestra which refused to accept her as Karajan's nominee for...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 2/2000
Beethoven Edition, Vol.19 - Large Choral Works
Subscribers to the whole edition will not need guidance over this, beyond, perhaps, an assurance that it is not in...
Reviewed in issue 13/1997
Bach & Boulez
The unselfregarding mastery and musical maturity David Fray brought to his Schubert and Liszt recital on ATMA manifest themselves on...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 7/2007
Verdi Aida
The rivalry between Muti and Abbado (DG), so close on LP, now transfers to CD. I suppose there has been...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 1/1987
Renata Scotto sings arias and duets
One thinks one knows: one thinks one remembers. I thought, for instance, that I'd remembered the NAbucco recording and would...
Reviewed in issue 9/1987
Beethoven Symphonies Nos 1 & 5
Philadelphia Orchestra | Riccardo Muti
There have been few recent Beethoven issues so exciting as this—the first disc in Muti's new cycle. The excitement is,...
Reviewed by Stephen Johnson in issue: 10/1986
Verdi Don Carlos
If you want the edition of the work revised in Italian by Verdi, first performed in 1884, this is your...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 13/2004
Beethoven Symphony 3; Coriolan Overture
Claudio Abbado | Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
In at least two of his Beethoven cycles, Karajan finished with the Eroica; Abbado, by contrast, has chosen to start...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 3/1987
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