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BEETHOVEN Piano Concertos (Steven Hough)
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra | Hannu Lintu
It is a tribute to the quality of Stephen Hough’s musicianship that the new cycle’s most memorable performance should be...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 05/2020
BEETHOVEN Violin Concerto (Daniel Lozakovich)
Daniel Lozakovich | Munich Philharmonic Orchestra | Valery Gergiev
This latest Beethoven Violin Concerto recording might, in a sense, be called a ‘Homage to Fritz Kreisler’, and not just...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 11/2020
Beethoven Recomposed
Alexander Gilman | LGT Young Soloists | Luka Coetzee | Miclen LaiPang
Don’t let this album’s title put you off; nothing is ‘recomposed’ here. Rather, these are quite faithful arrangements for string...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 04/2021
SCHUBERT Trout Quintet BRAHMS Piano Quintet
Astrig Siranossian | Émilie Legrand | Guillaume Chilemme | Marie Chilemme | Nathanaël Gouin
Two Trouts, one frolicking in the Oder, the other freezing in an Alpine stream in the skiing region around Chamonix....
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 06/2018
BARRY The Eternal Recurrence BEETHOVEN Symphonies 7-9 (Adès)
Britten Sinfonia | Christianne Stotijn | Ed Lyon | Jennifer France | Matthew Rose | Thomas Adès
The blossoming rapport between Thomas Adès and the Britten Sinfonia documented on the first two volumes of their Beethoven cycle...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 06/2021
BEETHOVEN Symphony No 3 MÉHUL Les Amazones Overture (Roth)
François-Xavier Roth | Les Siècles
Initial impressions – an audaciously spread opening pair of chords – suggest a symphonie funèbre et triomphale, minus the jingling...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 07/2021
BEETHOVEN; SCHNITTKE Violin Concertos (Vadim Gluzman)
James Gaffigan | Lucerne Symphony Orchestra | Vadim Gluzman
First let me pose a question regarding the function of oddball concerto cadenzas, when and where to use them. Outstretching,...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 09/2021
BEETHOVEN Fidelio (Janowski)
The vagaries forced upon recording and performing schedules by the coronavirus pandemic have sometimes produced some happy accidents. In the...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 09/2021
BEETHOVEN String Quartets Nos 10, 11 12 & 14 (Ehnes Quartet)
This is big, traditional playing, expressive and full-bodied, with plentiful vibrato and where each quartet member enters into a communal...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 02/2022
Beethoven String Quartets Nos 6 and 12
“Infectiously beguiling” might be a suitable epithet to describe the Henschel Quartet’s way with the opening movement of Op 18...
Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 4/2007
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