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Debussy; Haydn; Schubert Violin Sonatas
Benjamin Britten | Yehudi Menuhin
Menuhin and Britten first performed together‚ Tully Potter reminds us in his typically informative bookletnote‚ in 1945‚ on a concert...
Reviewed in issue 2/2002
Beethoven Symphony No 3, 'Eroica'
Andrew Manze | Helsingborg Symphony Orchestra
Debussy believed that a composer's metronome marking was only valid for the first bar. Andrew Manze goes the other way....
Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 5/2008
Beethoven Fidelio
Amid the post-war rebuilding of Dresden, singing Fidelio was like performing a church service, says soprano Christel Goltz in the...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 12/2011
Beethoven Piano Trios Op. 1 No.s 2 & 3
Since giving us an introductory sample of their Beethoven (in his Op 1 No 1) nearly four years ago (7/97),...
Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 3/2001
Beethoven Piano Works
Interest here of course centres on the legendary, six-octave grand of 1817, sent to Beethoven at the end of that...
Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 12/1992
Beethoven String Quartets Nos 12 and 14
This CD is the final instalment of the Cleveland Beethoven cycle; it also marks the Quartet’s swan-song. It was recorded...
Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 10/1997
Beethoven Piano Concerto No 5
François-René Duchâble | John Nelson | Paris Ensemble Orchestra | Paris Orchestral Ensemble
Nowadays when seemingly every live concert and opera production anywhere is filmed from front of house using three or four...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 6/2004
Beethoven Piano Sonatas Nos 8, 17 and 23
After her rapturously received Chopin recordings for EMI, Argentinian pianist Ingrid Fliter turns to Beethoven. And, in her grave, minor-key...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 8/2011
Beethoven Symphony No. 9
Expectation here is bound to be pitched high in the wake of Herreweghe’s widely praised period-instrument recording of the Missa...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 6/1999
Beethoven String Quartets, Vol. 5
This is billed as Vol. 5 of a complete cycle of Beethoven’s quartets, and leaves me keen to hear further...
Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 10/1997
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