Sealed 1984 Original. Claudio Abbado Conducting The Chicago Symphony Orchestra With Shlomo Mintz, Violin. Claudio Abbado Has A Highly-Developed Feeling For Prokofiev's Sound World, And Rarely Has The Fairy-Tale Atmosphere Of The First Concerto Been More Keenly Evoked. There Is No Question That Abbado Distills A Sense Of Wonder And Enchantment That Is Quite Special. Others Are Magical Too: Rozhdestvensky With The BBC Symphony Orchestra (HMV) And Kondrashin With The LPO (Decca) Are Given Slightly More Detailed Yet Not More Subtle Recording, But It Is Abbado That Casts The Strongest Spell. Throughout Both Concertos Textures Are More Delicately Coloured, Dynamic Nuances Scrupulously Observed And There Are Feather-Light String Sonorities. Shlomo Mintz Phrases With Imagination And Individuality; You Need Only Hear The Way He Shapes The First Bars Of The G Minor Concerto For That To Register. He Plays With Greater Polish And Beauty Of Tone Than Boris Belkin, Greater Freshness Than Stern (CBS-7/83). A Beautifully Refined And Homogeneous Recording That Is Very Impressive Indeed. There Is Plenty Of Space Round The Instruments And The Sound Is Truthful. - Gramophone.