

Riccardo Muti prioritizes beauty of sound over all else in this performance, with the result that you pay far more attention to the orchestral playing

Riccardo Muti made many superb recordings, and yet I continue

How is it possible that this 40-year-old performance got by me? With the great Riccardo Muti, three of my favorite singers (at the time), and

The Bottom Line: Hot on the heals of Warner’s 90+

This is a great performance of Shostakovich’s grimly epic Thirteenth Symphony, a work that Muti has championed for many years. Everyone involved is in top

There are three “reference” editions of Aida in the stereo catalog: Tebaldi/Karajan, Price/Solti, and this one. Its strengths include a spectacular Aida in Montserrat Caballé,

Since there are dozens of recordings of Il trovatore available,

We are amazingly well supplied with excellent Schumann symphony cycles.

Riccardo Muti made an absolutely stunning recording of the first two suites (more or less) from Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet with the Philadelphia Orchestra for

This appealing set contains all of Prokofiev’s most important ballets
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