Abbado; Claudio

Mendelssohn symphonies

Victor Carr Jr

Claudio Abbado’s earliest Mendelssohn symphony recordings, made long before his international celebrity and prestigious music directorships, reveal a young conductor of considerable talent. His way

THE COLOUR OF CLASSICS: THE PIANISTS

Jed Distler

Nothing new or rare here, but LP mavens wishing these performances in state-of-the-art analog transfers on super thick, extra virgin vinyl should investigate this boxed

Hindemith Kammermusik Abaddo/EMI

David Hurwitz

Hindemith’s seven Kammermusik pieces don’t seem to last long in the catalog (at least here in the U.S. where titles get deleted unless they go

Pires’ Schumann Concerto & Quintet

Jed Distler

Long time collectors who remember Guiomar Novaes’ intimate, impulsive approach to the burlier portions of Schumann’s Piano Concerto will find a sonically upgraded parallel in

Abbado’s Tchaikovsky

Victor Carr Jr

This 1974 Pathetique, along with the contemporaneous Fourth and Second symphonies on Deutsche Grammophon, made Claudio Abbado’s early reputation as a fine Tchaikovsky conductor. Abbado

THE GREAT SYMPHONIES

Victor Carr Jr

This 5-CD set presents a collection of recordings from Decca’s back catalog covering some of the major symphonic works from the late 18th to the

Mozart, Debussy, Takemitsu by Sabine MeyerDONE

ClassicsToday

Sabine Meyer performs three extremely different works whose common feature is to treat the clarinet primarily as a lyrical instrument. Played on basset-horn (basically a

Strauss: Four Last Songs/OrchLieder/Mattila

Robert Levine

This CD is comprised of six orchestral songs composed by Richard Strauss between 1896 and 1906 (some were orchestrated later) and the Four Last Songs

A Boring Wunderhorn

David Hurwitz

Whatever curse that has made Claudio Abbado and Berlin one of the most interpretively comatose musical partnerships in the world certainly seems to be working