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Karel Ancerl - My Country
Czech Philharmonic Orchestra | Henryk Szeryng | Karel Ancerl
Urbane, modest, uncomplicated and entirely self-possessed, Karel Ancerl makes an unsatisfactorily self-effacing interviewee for the same reasons that his recordings...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 7/2010
Beethoven Late String Quartets
If you agree with Misha Donat that “the expressive heart in Beethoven’s late quartets is formed by a serene set...
Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 6/2009
Beethoven String Quartet Op 135; Walton Sonata for Strings
As the booklet asks, why Beethoven and Walton? The answer is, the Walton has become a favourite work with this...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 3/2006
Beethoven Piano Sonatas 16-18
As we have come to expect from him, Louis Lortie offers Beethoven playing of the utmost polish and refinement. He...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 1/2001
Beethoven Symphonies Nos 1 & 4
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra | Wilhelm Furtwängler
Furtwangler's admirers who are collecting Compact Discs will be pleased to have these eminently responsible readings of Beethoven's First and...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 12/1986
Beethoven Songs
Anner Bylsma | Gijs Beths | Marjanne Kweksilber | Stanley Hoogland | Vera Beths
''Oh! tell me, Harper, wherefore flow Thy wayward notes of wail and woe?'' Wherefore indeed? Beethoven ephemera, especially when it...
Reviewed by hfinch in issue: 12/1991
Beethoven Emperor Concerto
Boston Symphony Orchestra | Rudolf Serkin | Seiji Ozawa
This, as I wrote in my review of the LP, is a marvellous recording of a very great musician, still...
Reviewed in issue 12/1983
Beethoven Piano Concertos Nos 3, 4 and 5
Artur Pizarro | Charles Mackerras | Scottish Chamber Orchestra
It would almost be worth acquiring these two discs for the conducting. Not having heard Mackerras direct these concertos before,...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 8/2009
Mozart & Schubert String Quartets
Since the players' names are omitted from the new CD I think it important to point out that this is...
Reviewed in issue 6/1987
Beethoven Quartet, Op. 59/1
In some ways the F major was the most impressive of the Lindsay set of the Rasumovsky Quartets and its...
Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 4/1987
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