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Verdi Un ballo in maschera
It is extraordinary how some operas never receive satisfactory recordings while others never get poor ones. Ballo is happily in...
Reviewed in issue 11/1988
Verdi Requiem
I had thought I was beginning to tire a little of the Requiem because it seemed no performance in concert...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 11/1987
Van Cliburn Competition 1993 Gold Medal Winner
Christopher Taylor | Simone Pedroni | Valeri Kuleshov
The Van Cliburn International Piano Competition (its progress, from humble beginnings to a lavish extravaganza, lovingly charted in the insert-notes...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 4/1994
Verdi Don Carlo
Forget the boos that made the headlines on the first night, as they seem to do every year at the...
Reviewed in issue 5/1994
Domingo Opera Classics
These two offerings once again demonstrate the breadth of Domingo's repertory extending from Handel to Wagner and Boito, and encompassing...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 6/1994
Brahms Serenade No 1. Elgar In the South
Milan La Scala Philharmonic Orchestra | Riccardo Muti
If this is an unexpected coupling from an unexpected source, Riccardo Muti's strong and expressive performances provide reason enough for...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 1/1995
Placido Domingo sings Operatic Arias
Most of the sets from which these substantial extracts are taken were made in the early 1970s, that is to...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 1/1986
Beethoven Symphonies Nos 1 & 5
Philadelphia Orchestra | Riccardo Muti
Though one recalls with pleasure Bruno Walter's post-war Philadelphia recording of the Pastoral Symphony (Columbia LX963/7, 11/46—nla), the orchestra has...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 10/1986
Twentieth-century piano music
Critics are not paid to be lost for words. But then human beings are not supposed to be able to...
Reviewed in issue 11/1986
Claudio Abbado - (The) Silence that follows music - A Portrait
As Promgoers and Edinburgh Festival patrons will attest, Claudio Abbado takes nothing for granted these days, the unforced lucidity of...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 3/2003
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