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Beethoven Piano Concerto No 3; Triple Concerto, Op 56
Boris Berezovsky | Mats Rondin | Swedish Chamber Orchestra | Thomas Dausgaard | Urban Svensson
This fifth volume in Simax's Beethoven series follows the already well-set pattern of presenting the composer in a more intimate,...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 11/2002
Beethoven Fidelio
‘Triumph! Triumph! Triumph!’ as nasty Pizarro exultantly cries. He, of course, is in for a disappointment. Not so the listener...
Reviewed by John Steane in issue: /2000
Beethoven Triple Concerto
I am sure that readers will understand that, much as I appreciate Beethoven's Triple Concerto (and I have expressed my...
Reviewed in issue 6/1986
Beethoven Symphony 9
Nowadays, I suspect, it would be impossible to revive the debate about the efficacy or otherwise of ‘live recording’. Even...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 7/1997
Beethoven: Middle Quartets
Again the Alban Berg Quartet is the first in the field and their set of the Rasumovsky together with Opp....
Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 9/1985
Beethoven Complete Symphonies
In a witheringly funny piece on the current state of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Michael Henderson observed that “if Proust...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 13/2007
Beethoven Complete Piano Trios Vol 2
Volume 1 of the Florestan Beethoven series, with its inspiring performances of the two Op 70 trios, encouraged high expectations...
Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 11/2003
Beethoven Symphonies Nos 5 and 1
Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie, Bremen | Paavo Järvi
By calling Paavo Järvi’s Beethoven Fifth a front-runner, I intend the reference more as a reflection of fast pacing, brilliant...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 2/2009
Beethoven String Quartets Nos 10 & 11
“Op 74 is an underrated masterpiece of deep consummate beauty of thought and execution.” Robert Simpson’s words, taken further by...
Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 3/2009
Beethoven Complete String Quartets, Volume 2
Bright‚ alert‚ lively playing – just what’s wanted for these youthful masterpieces. My chief criticism is that the Pra½ák Quartet...
Reviewed in issue 8/2002
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