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BEETHOVEN Piano Sonatas, Vol 3
How are Beethoven’s markings in the Arietta of Op 111 meant to be interpreted? On the one hand he specifies...
Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: AW/2012
BEETHOVEN; SHOSTAKOVICH String Quartets
While the composer himself was reluctant to break faith with the technically less proficient Beethoven Quartet, concert-goers and record buyers...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 06/2012
BEETHOVEN Triple Concerto for Piano, Violin and Cello, Op 56. Concerto for Piano, Op 37
Berlin German Symphony Orchestra | Johannes Moser | Kent Nagano | Kolja Blacher | Mari Kodama
The grand manner is implicit in Kent Nagano’s opening of the Triple Concerto. Cellos and basses are deep yet pianissimo,...
Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue:
BEETHOVEN Violin Sonatas Nos 1-10
Jos van Immerseel | Midori Seiler
Although written over a fairly condensed stretch of time (they don’t cover his whole career but rather the prolific, pre-deafness...
Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 11/2012
Beethoven Orchestral Works
Mark Ermler | Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Nowadays, the majority of classic Beethoven symphony recordings are at mid-price. Attempt to economize further and you are liable to...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 5/1994
Beethoven Piano Sonatas
The Op. 31 Sonatas make a finely contrasted group, a self-sufficient programme in themselves. They also offer a wonderful way...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 11/1995
Trio Fontenay plays Beethoven
Eliahu Inbal | Fontenay Trio | Philharmonia Orchestra
Though it has never been the ugly duckling that Rachmaninov's Fourth Piano Concerto used to be, Beethoven's Triple Concerto has...
Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 10/1991
Beethoven Sonatas, Vol 2: Early Vienna Sonatas
New interpretations are always welcome; but not everything Ronald Brautigam has to say might be welcome as, for example, the...
Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 11/2005
Shostakovich/Beethoven Works for String Quartet
At 42 minutes these live performances would have to be something pretty special to justify their full-price issue. Well, there...
Reviewed in issue 10/1993
Beethoven Piano Sonatas, Vol 3
Paul Lewis’s third and penultimate volume of his Beethoven sonata cycle once more shows him playing down all possible roughness...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 11/2007
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