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Beethoven Piano Concerto No 5
Christian Zacharias | Hans Vonk | Staatskapelle Dresden
I recall Christian Zacharias being spoken of highly when it was comparatively difficult to acquire any of his recordings in...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 3/1989
Beethoven Sonatas for Violin and Piano
Raymond Cohen and Anthya Rael are a husband-and-wife team who have performed as a duo for some four decades—and, incidentally,...
Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 12/1992
Beethoven Piano Sonatas, Vol. 4
Bruno-Leonardo Gelber has many of the qualifications for a fine Beethoven pianist; the trouble is, he is too keen to...
Reviewed in issue 9/1990
Beethoven Overtures
Daniel Harding | Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie, Bremen
There is one overture here which Daniel Harding seems well equipped to record at this stage in his career. The...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 2/2000
Beethoven Symphony No 7 etc
Jeffrey Tate | Staatskapelle Dresden
Judging from Jeffrey Tate's recordings to date, he seems to share Bryden Thomson's view (see February, page 1107) that the...
Reviewed by Stephen Johnson in issue: 8/1987
Beethoven Solo Piano Works, Vol 8
Elisabeth Leonskaja | Ronald Brautigam
You wouldn’t think at first glance that these recordings of Beethoven’s last three sonatas have more than a few points...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 10/2010
Beethoven Piano Sonatas Op 2 No 2, Op 27 No 2, Op 110 & 111
This succinct, magically fleet recital (Gulda’s first at the Salzburg Festival, given in 1964) comes, ironically, from an iconoclast who...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 12/2002
Schubert & Mozart: Sacred Choral Works
This issue denotes the importance in Viennese musical life of the choir of the historic St Augustin Church. To judge...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 2/1990
Beethoven String Quartets Nos. 13 & 16; Grosse Fuge.
This is, by my reckoning, the Juilliard Quartet’s third recording of Op. 130 and their fourth of Op. 135 (two...
Reviewed in issue 2/1998
Beethoven Symphonies Nos. 7 & 8
London Symphony Orchestra | Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos
The insert-notes for this mixed harpsichord and fortepiano programme suggest that the point of it all is to demonstrate something...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 4/1995
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