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Beethoven Piano Trios
These trios are played in the grand style – not in the sense of a barnstorming approach to Beethoven, rather...
Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 13/2004
BEETHOVEN Violin Sonatas Op 12
Aaron Shorr | Peter Sheppard Skaerved
This is the fifth and final instalment of an interesting series that presents Beethoven’s violin sonatas in the context of...
Reviewed by Duncan Druce in issue: 11/2013
BEETHOVEN The Late Piano Sonatas
To choose the last three Beethoven sonatas as your debut recording might be seen as headstrong, but the last five?...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 11/2013
BEETHOVEN Piano Concerto No 3. Piano Sonatas Nos 14 & 32
Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra | Gianandrea Noseda
Fazil Say, a pianist with a maverick reputation, now takes Beethoven by storm and the result, while unsettling for those...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 07/2014
BEETHOVEN Piano Sonatas Nos 14 & 29
Often known as ‘the Mount Everest of the keyboard’, Beethoven’s Hammerklavier Sonata poses every conceivable problem, musically and technically (though...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 11/2014
BEETHOVEN Symphonies Nos 1 & 2
Martin Haselböck | Vienna Academy Orchestra
As ever with Martin Haselböck, the overall agenda on this disc centres firmly on historic performance practice. After his series...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 07/2015
BEETHOVEN Sonatas for Fortepiano and Violin
Anyone who has heard a classical Viennese fortepiano live will know that it’s not an especially strong instrument; recordings, however,...
Reviewed by Duncan Druce in issue: 09/2015
BEETHOVEN Diabelli Variations, Op 120
Before launching into Beethoven’s Diabelli Variations, Andreas Staier offers an overture of sorts. He commences with Anton Diabelli’s C major...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 08/2012
BEETHOVEN Missa Solemnis
Here are two live versions of Beethoven’s mighty work, recorded 35 years apart. The Cologne performance was taped in a...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 08/2012
BEETHOVEN Piano Sonatas Vol 4
For once the hyperbole rings true. Christian Leotta’s fourth volume of Beethoven sonatas is indeed ‘a major addition to other...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 08/2013
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