Riccardo Chailly
Bruckner: Nine Symphonies review | Andrew Clements' classical album of the week
In advance of Bruckner’s bicentenary, a roll call of tremendous historic interpretations is a timely reminder of this orchestra’s superb playing
Andrew Clements
25, Aug, 2023 @6:00 AM
House music: Tim Ashley's watching and listening highlights
This week, our critic cues up Opera North’s podcast, takes in Ryedale’s streaming festival and revisits an archived Proms performance with Riccardo Chailly
Tim Ashley
27, Jul, 2020 @4:00 PM
Messa per Rossini CD review – Chailly gives this historical curiosity drama and authority
Riccardo Chailly and Teatro alla Scala resurrect a stirring, though uneven tribute by Verdi and his contemporaries
Andrew Clements
03, Jan, 2019 @3:00 PM
Classical album of the week: Mendelssohn: A Midsummer Night's Dream/Tchaikovsky: Manfred Symphony review
Riccardo Chailly and the Lucerne Festival Orchestra adroitly bring together their past and future in deft and persuasive style
Andrew Clements
05, Jul, 2018 @2:00 PM
Lucerne festival 2017 review – Chailly, Gardiner, Monteverdi et al
Lucerne has identity on its mind, and delights including Riccardo Chailly and his La Scala band and John Eliot Gardiner’s Monteverdi tour
Fiona Maddocks
02, Sep, 2017 @8:00 AM
Filarmonica della Scala/Chailly review – a spine-tingling Proms debut
A breathtaking Brahms with soloist Leonidas Kavakos was followed by a lush evocation of Respighi’s Rome, affirming the virtuosity of Riccardo Chailly’s Milan ensemble
Tim Ashley
27, Aug, 2017 @10:26 AM
Mahler: Symphony No 8 DVD review – Chailly pays impressive tribute to Abbado
Riccardo Chailly’s debut concert with the Swiss orchestra, dedicated to his mentor Claudio Abbado, is thoughtful and measured
Andrew Clements
22, Jun, 2017 @5:00 PM
The top classical, world, folk and jazz of summer 2017
Comedy choirs, desert rock, a trip to the moon and a musical tour of Hull are the standout sounds of the season. Plus Django Bates jazzes up Sgt Pepper
Tim Ashley, Robin Denselow, John Fordham and Imogen Tilden
19, Jun, 2017 @5:00 AM
Colin Matthews: Violin Concerto CD review – rapt meditation for composer's 70th birthday
Erica Jeal
23, Jun, 2016 @2:00 PM
Giovanna d’Arco review – a first night to remember at La Scala
Riot police, the Italian PM and Patti Smith were all there as local boy Riccardo Chailly took charge at La Scala, Milan for a triumphant Giovanna d’Arco
Fiona Maddocks
13, Dec, 2015 @7:30 AM
Leipzig Gewandhaus/Chailly/Fröst review – Strauss with bright exactitude
Riccardo Chailly brought a pressing, unsentimental approach to Richard Strauss, while Martin Fröst played Mozart’s clarinet concerto with irresistible character
Martin Kettle
26, Oct, 2015 @12:53 PM
Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra/Chailly review - vivid Strauss and understated Mozart
Riccardo Chailly’s precision and energy made for a magnificent performance of two of Strauss’s tone poems; but Maria João Pires’s Mozart sometimes felt detached
Andrew Clements
21, Oct, 2015 @12:22 PM
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