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Beethoven String Quintets Opp 4 & 29
The Nash Ensemble, with a distinguished line-up including viola-players Lawrence Power and Philip Dukes and cellist Paul Watkins, here give...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 2/2009
Beethoven Piano Trios, Volume 3
With so many illustrious contenders in this field already, my immediate reaction was that the comparatively unfamiliar (in the English...
Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 12/1994
Beethoven Piano Sonatas, Vol 5
Gerhard Oppitz | Ronald Brautigam
The three Op 31 Sonatas elicit Gerhard Oppitz’s most characterful and personalised playing yet in a Beethoven cycle that’s been...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 6/2007
Beethoven Symphonies Nos 2 & 5
Douglas Boyd | French National Orchestra | Kurt Masur | Manchester Camerata
Two good Second Symphonies, very unalike, though their respective couplings are more problematic. Douglas Boyd appears to have taken a...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 12/2004
Beethoven Piano Concertos Nos 3 & 4
Yefim Bronfman | Zurich Tonhalle Orchestra
I can’t recall hearing a more honest or securely focused account of Beethoven’s Fourth Concerto in a long while, though...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 12/2005
Beethoven: Complete Symphonies
Six discs for a Beethoven symphony cycle seems about the norm these days. What makes the Chandos set unusual is...
Reviewed by Stephen Johnson in issue: 5/1989
Beethoven Violin Sonatas
Gerrit Zitterbart | Matthias Metzger
Here’s an unusual and slightly puzzling project. It’s puzzling because one expects performers to be committed to their particular view...
Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 8/2009
Beethoven Symphony 3
(Royal) Concertgebouw Orchestra, Amsterdam | Pierre Monteux
One of the conductors I most deeply regret not hearing in the concert hall was Pierre Monteux though I still...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 6/1988
Beethoven Piano Concertos Nos 2 & 3
François-Frédéric Guy | Philippe Jordan
With this coupling François-Frederic Guy completes his set of the Beethoven concertos, once more admirably partnered by the Radio France...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 13/2009
Beethoven Violin Sonatas
John J Blakely | Lorraine McAslan
With Perlman and Menuhin recently brought to the fore in the Spring and Kreutzer market (together with Stern offering the...
Reviewed by hfinch in issue: 3/1987
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