BEETHOVEN Symphony No 9

Erin Wall | Nathan Berg | San Francisco Symphony Chorus | San Francisco Symphony Orchestra | William Burden

Mahler has been the mainstay of the San Francisco Symphony’s releases on its own label and this performance of Beethoven’s...

Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 08/2013

BEETHOVEN String Trio Op 3. Serenade Op 8

Trio Zimmermann

The acknowledged masterpieces among Beethoven’s string trios are the three that form Op 9. Trio Zimmermann have already recorded those...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 08/2014

Beethoven String Quartet, Op 131

International Musicians Seminar Soloists | Sándor Végh

In the late 1970s Bernstein recorded Op. 131 with the strings of the Vienna Philharmonic for DG, inspired as he...

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 9/1991

Beethoven Diabelli Variations, Op. 120

Paul Lewis

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 8/2011

Beethoven Complete Piano Sonatas

Richard Goode

Richard Goode is due to play all the Beethoven sonatas in London this year—his first recital, at the South Bank,...

Reviewed by Stephen Plaistow in issue: 3/1994

Beethoven String Quartets, Volume 2

Kodály Quartet

I reviewed the first of the Kodaly Quartet’s CDs of the Op. 18 Quartets (coupling Nos. 1 and 2) along...

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 3/1996

Beethoven String Quartets Op.18 No.4 & Op.59 No.3

Schuppanzigh Quartet

Unlike Ignaz Schuppanzigh, the quartet named after him has no cause to complain about the difficulties of playing Beethoven’s music....

Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: /2000

Beethoven Piano Concertos 4 & 5

Landon Ronald | London Symphony Orchestra | Wilhelm Backhaus

Backhaus was 40 when he made this recording of the Emperor Piano Concerto in January 1927. It was made, Jonathan...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 9/1998

Beethoven Lieder und Gesänge

Iain Burnside

Beethoven was a reluctant song composer, avowedly frustrated by the limitations of the human voice – and, one suspects, the...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 2/2009

Beethoven Triple Concerto; Vorisek Grand Rondeau

Moravian Philharmonic Orchestra (Olomouc) | Smetana Trio | Stanislav Vavrínek

There are two fundamental approaches to Beethoven’s Triple Concerto: the coming-together of three star soloists and the piano-trio-plus-orchestra. The first...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 11/2008