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BEETHOVEN Symphony No 9 (Bernard)
The catalogue is bursting with recordings of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony that are undeniably flawed yet nevertheless contain enough points of...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 10/2017
Tecchler's Cello
Guy Johnston’s cello was built in Rome in 1714 by the Bavarian-born David Tecchler. To commemorate its 300th birthday, the...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 11/2017
BEETHOVEN Violin Sonatas Nos 3, 7 & 10
Baptiste Lopez | Maude Gratton
Period instruments are to the fore here, an anonymous Italian violin from 1690 (the Gaulard bow dates from 1820), and...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 12/2017
BEETHOVEN String Quartets Op 18/3, Op 131 (Calder Quartet)
Beethoven apparently once described himself as a new Bacchus. So he’d surely have approved of the winery in Napa Valley...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 07/2019
BEETHOVEN Missa solemnis (Bernius)
Without minimising either the monumental elements of Beethoven’s long gestated Mass setting or its sheer difficulty, Frieder Bernius coaches from...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 08/2019
REGER Orchestral Songs
The title for this disc is something of a misnomer, since none of Reger’s original works for voice and orchestra...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 12/2016
Beethoven Symphonies 6 & 8
David Suzuki | Kent Nagano | Montreal Symphony Orchestra
Nagano and his Montreal players give an agreeable, somewhat Bruno Walter‑ish account of Beethoven’s Pastoral Symphony. Somnolence occasionally threatens in...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 11/2011
Beethoven Eroica Symphony
Christoph von Dohnányi | Cleveland Orchestra
This is the first recording to appear here with the Cleveland Orchestra playing under its new Music Director, and though...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 9/1984
Beethoven Choral Symphony
It is possible to be too much in awe of the Ninth Symphony. Self-belief and a touch of flamboyance, such...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 11/1996
Brahms Cello Sonatas
It doesn’t take long for this CD to make an impact. Natalie Clein declaims the main theme of the Second...
Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 12/2004
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