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Beethoven Piano Sonatas
These live Beethoven performances by Emil Gilels are distinguished by his customary profound artistic penetration. Nikolaieva’s Beethoven sonata cycle (recorded...
Reviewed in issue 10/1996
Beethoven Symphony No. 3; Egmont Overture
Czech Philharmonic Orchestra | George Szell
Szell regularly conducted foreign orchestras at the Salzburg Festival in the late 1950s and throughout the 1960s: the Berlin Philharmonic...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 3/1996
Beethoven Piano Sonatas Nos 8, 13, 26, 27
Few pianists divide opinion more sharply than the Czech pianist Ivan Moravec. For his admirers his acquiring cult status rather...
Reviewed in issue 2/2002
Beethoven Piano Sonatas
Walter Gieseking was hardly the most consistent of great pianists but at his finest, as on this present issue of...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 12/2011
Beethoven Four Piano Sonatas
Sibelius's dream of a career as a violin virtuoso is well documented, as is his failure to achieve it, but...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 4/2000
Beethoven String Quartet Op. 130; Grosse Fuge
Even from the first movement’s opening bars, you sense you are in line for an exceptional Op. 130. The dramatic...
Reviewed in issue 11/1999
Beethoven Piano Trios
These are immensely likeable performances, with everything clear and well-balanced, and the expansive, confident style of early Beethoven well conveyed,...
Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 7/2003
Beethoven Piano Sonatas Nos 17, 21 and 23
A maverick pianist in mainstream repertoire is not without its advantages. But Fazil Say, a wild young man of the...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 1/2006
Sally Matthews - Lieder Recital
Malcolm Martineau | Sally Matthews
Sally Matthews has proved her worth in opera as a feisty young soprano with a well-groomed technique – most recently...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 1/2005
Beethoven String Quartet, Op 130; Grosse Fuge
As quartet playing, this is almost flawless; the Guarneri even surmount—insofar as it is possible for mortals to do so—the...
Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 3/1989
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