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BEETHOVEN Piano Sonatas
The many virtues and occasional drawbacks characterising the first two instalments of François-Frédéric Guy’s Beethoven cycle spill over into this...
Reviewed by Distler in issue: 08/2013
BEETHOVEN Complete Works for Cello and Piano
Their style is free of turgidity, their technique unblemished. Thomas Sauer and Colin Carr are a secure duo, and Beethoven’s...
Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 10/2013
BEETHOVEN Piano Trios Nos 6 & 7
Alexander Melnikov | Isabelle Faust | Jean-Guihen Queyras
Nannette Streicher’s new piano was a six-octave godsend for Beethoven. And the next year, 1808, he ran the full gamut...
Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 04/2014
BEETHOVEN Piano Trios Opp 11 & 38
Gould Piano Trio | Robert Plane
Not always profound Beethoven, but genuine Beethoven all the same. With a connection too: the theme from the second movement...
Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 06/2014
BEETHOVEN Violin Concerto Op 61 BERG Violin Concerto
Antje Weithaas | Stavanger Symphony Orchestra | Steven Sloane
This issue faces strong competition from the Gramophone Award-winning recording of the same two works by Isabelle Faust, with Abbado...
Reviewed by Duncan Druce in issue: 06/2014
Beethoven Symphony No 9
The opening bars of the Beethoven Ninth either look forward to, or back from, Bruckner. Depending upon where you stand....
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 13/2003
Brahms; Grieg; Shostakovich Cello Sonatas
Benjamin Britten | Sviatoslav Richter
Joyful anticipation at 80 minutes of previously unreleased live performances from Aldeburgh, given by two Russian giants and their composer-pianist...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 12/2009
Beethoven String Quartets
The Orpheus Quartet will be familiar to many UK collectors for their recordings of the Malipiero quartets (ASV, V92). However,...
Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 12/1994
BEETHOVEN Piano Sonatas
Harmonia Mundi must like Beethoven’s piano sonatas. As if Paul Lewis’s complete cycle wasn’t enough, the label now presents Javier...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 11/2012
BEETHOVEN (Der) glorreiche Augenblick. Choral Fantasia
It wasn’t quite Der glorreiche Augenblick. The Congress of Vienna in September 1814 was dampened by Napoleon (who had also...
Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 09/2012
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