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Beethoven String Quartets, Op 18, Nos 2 & 3
How you respond to these interpretations will depend on how you respond to the playing style of the Mosaïques Quartet....
Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 8/2007
Beethoven (The) Piano Concertos
Bernard Haitink | London Philharmonic Orchestra
An endearing “real-time” quality characterises the production values of these 1974 BBC television transmissions, notably in how host Basil Moss...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 13/2007
Beethoven: Piano Sonatas
This programme of Beethoven piano sonatas presents an excellent opportunity for Varjon to display his expressive range and fluent keyboard...
Reviewed in issue 3/1996
Beethoven Chamber Works
After its triumphant first performance in 1800, Beethoven's Septet went on to become not only one of the most popular...
Reviewed in issue 11/1995
Mendelssohn; Schubert; Strauss, R Lieder
Edita Gruberová | Erik Werba | Peter Schmidl
By the time Gruberová first appeared at the Salzburg Festival in 1980, at 34, she had already established herself as...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 6/2005
Beethoven: Chamber Music on Period Instruments
Christopher Kite plays on a copy of a 1784 Stein fortepiano, and a most attractive instrument it is, well suited...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 8/1989
Beethoven String Trios, Volume 1
Generally, the exceptional flair and creative energy of Beethoven’s Op. 9 String Trios is winningly conveyed in these eloquent accounts...
Reviewed in issue 4/1997
Beethoven - Complete Works for Cello & Piano
Heinrich Schiff | Till Fellner
The traditional, legendary view of Beethoven presents him as a fiery, temperamental iconoclast, but it's surely a characteristic of great...
Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 6/2000
Mozart/Schubert Chamber Works
Emanuel Ax | Guarneri Quartet | Julius Levine
You may be tempted by the inclusion of a fill-up on the new CD. The rivals offer only the Trout...
Reviewed in issue 10/1986
Beethoven Cello Sonatas
Christophe Coin | Patrick Cohen
The accompanying booklet tells us that Beethoven first published his Op. 5, dating from 1796, as ''Deux Sonates pour le...
Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 6/1986
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