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Mozart/Schubert Piano Works for Four Hands
Mozart and Schubert, the two great geniuses whose lives were troubled and short: they make a good pair here, although...
Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 7/1993
Beethoven Symphonies
New York Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra | Willem Mengelberg
In 1930, when these recordings were made, Mengelberg was at the end of a ten-year period as head of the...
Reviewed in issue 12/1994
Aksel Schiøtz, Vol. 4
“Hidden Treasure” is the appropriate subtitle for this volume of the complete Schiotz recordings. It begins with the ten songs...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 5/1997
Beethoven Fidelio
This unusual‚ some may say eccentric version of Fidelio has been unavailable since the demise long ago of the Westminster...
Reviewed by kYlzrO1BaC7A in issue: 12/2001
Beethoven Piano Trios, Volume 2
Guarneri Trio Of Prague | Michal Kanka | Pascal Moraguès
Other groups may show more temperament in the combustible C minor Trio from Op. 1. But the Guarneri Trio gives...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 13/1999
Beethoven/Mussorgsky Orchestral Works
Klaus Tennstedt | London Philharmonic Orchestra
''Ah, at last,'' exclaimed Eusebius. ''A real conductor, and a truly noble Eroica!''Florestan pursed his lips.''My dear Eusebius, is this...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 11/1994
Beethoven Works for Chorus and Orchestra
This is a collection of chips from the great man’s workbench, some of them thin shavings but none of them...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 4/1996
Beethoven Symphonies Nos 4 & 7
Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie, Bremen | Paavo Järvi
Adapting Schumann’s metaphor for the Fourth Symphony, “a slim Greek maiden between two Norse giants” (the Eroica and Fifth symphonies),...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 8/2008
Beethoven Orchestral Works
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra | Paul van Kempen
Paul van Kempen won a kind of phonographic immortality when he conducted for Kempff in his early 1950s DG Berlin...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 3/1994
Beethoven Piano Sonatas
With the exception of the late Emil Gilels, I cannot think of many Russian pianists that I would consider to...
Reviewed by James Methuen-Campbell in issue: 4/1989
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