BEETHOVEN Piano Trios Vol 2 (Trio Con Brio Copenhagen)

Trio con Brio

Trio Con Brio launched their Beethoven piano trio cycle earlier this year with a pairing of the Op 1 No...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 01/2019

BEETHOVEN Symphonies Nos 1 & 3 (Jordan)

Philippe Jordan | Vienna Symphony Orchestra

Though the Vienna Philharmonic has recorded many Beethoven cycles, the city’s distinguished second orchestra, the Vienna Symphony, has found less...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 01/2018

BEETHOVEN Piano Concerto No 5 (Bax)

Alessio Bax | Simon Over | Southbank Sinfonia

It is almost impossible not to like Alessio Bax. Since his Leeds Competition win in 2000 he has confirmed his...

Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 06/2018

BEETHOVEN Complete Works for Cello and Piano

François-Frédéric Guy | Xavier Phillips

This is the third instalment in François-Frédéric Guy’s traversal of Beethoven and the first to delve into the chamber music....

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 01/2016

BEETHOVEN Symphonies Nos 4 & 5

Vienna Concentus Musicus

Such is the vitality of these performances recorded live in Vienna’s Musikverein in May 2015, it is difficult to believe...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 02/2016

BEETHOVEN Complete Piano Sonatas (Igor Levit)

Six years ago Igor Levit burst on to the recording scene, making his debut with Beethoven’s last five sonatas at...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: AW2019

BEETHOVEN String Quintets Opp 29 & 104. Fugue op 137

WDR Symphony Orchestra Cologne Chamber Players

It’s perhaps not surprising that Beethoven’s string quintets feature less highly in his output than do similar works by Mozart...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 02/2020

BEETHOVEN Piano Concertos Nos 1 & 5

Lars Vogt | Royal Northern Sinfonia

When Lars Vogt’s recordings of Beethoven’s First and Second Piano Concertos with Simon Rattle and the CBSO were released in...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 06/2017

BEETHOVEN; FRANCK Violin Sonatas transcribed for Cello

Cristiano Burato | Roberto Trainini

‘Up high it sounds nasal, and down low it grumbles’: Dvořák’s supposed comment about the solo cello came to mind...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 04/2017

BEETHOVEN Violin Sonatas Nos 6 & 9

Andrew Armstrong | James Ehnes

This is James Ehnes’s first disc of Beethoven sonatas and I very much hope it will herald a complete survey....

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 05/2017