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Review of BEETHOVEN Triple Concerto

BEETHOVEN Triple Concerto

Benjamin Grosvenor | Gerald Finley | Nicola Benedetti | Philharmonia Orchestra | Santtu-Matias Rouvali

Decca

Few concertos establish a more vivid sense of anticipation than Beethoven does at the start of his Triple Concerto, a...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 07/2024

Review of BEETHOVEN String Quartets Vol 2

BEETHOVEN String Quartets Vol 2

Doric String Quartet

Chandos

Here is the second release in a major studio cycle launched earlier in this, the Doric’s 25th year and intended...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 11/2024

Review of Flute Serenade

Flute Serenade

Israel Flute Ensemble

Fine Art Collection

Like the other CDI/Pickwick CDs I have enjoyed this month (see pages 79 and 131), this concert is impeccably recorded....

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 6/1990

Review of Claudio Abbado - (The) Silence that follows music - A Portrait

Claudio Abbado - (The) Silence that follows music - A Portrait

Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra | Chamber Orchestra of Europe | Claudio Abbado | Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra

TDK

As Promgoers and Edinburgh Festival patrons will attest, Claudio Abbado takes nothing for granted these days, the unforced lucidity of...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 3/2003

Review of András Schiff at Mozarwoche

András Schiff at Mozarwoche

András Schiff | Cappella Andrea Barca

C Major

This DVD preserves highlights of a pair of concerts featuring András Schiff during last year’s Mozartwoche at the Mozarteum Foundation...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 09/2016

Review of Beethoven Piano Trios (Isimsiz; Rautio)

Beethoven Piano Trios (Isimsiz; Rautio)

Rautio Piano Trio | Trio Isimsiz

Resonus Classics

The Rautio Piano Trio played Mozart on period instruments for their Resonus debut (9/16). Here, in a programme of Beethoven,...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 03/2018

Review of Végh in Hungary

Végh in Hungary

Salzburg Camerata | Sándor Végh

In my experience there are only two conductors who could have delivered these pungent, characterful and lovingly played performances, Pablo...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 09/2014

Review of Martha Argerich: Carte blanche

Martha Argerich: Carte blanche

Julian Rachlin | Lang Lang | Martha Argerich | Mischa Maisky | Renaud Capuçon | Yuri Bashmet

Deutsche Grammophon

The Verbier Festival gave Martha Argerich carte blanche to invite her best friends to perform with her for one night...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 09/2015

Review of Beethoven Mass in D, 'Missa Solemnis'

Beethoven Mass in D, 'Missa Solemnis'

Christa Ludwig | Karl Böhm | Margaret Price | Martti Talvela | Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra | Vienna State Opera Chorus | Wieslaw Ochman

I wrote about this recording with enthusiasm when it first appeared and though I do not now want to go...

Reviewed in issue 3/1985

Review of Wagner Der Ring des Nibelungen

Wagner Der Ring des Nibelungen

Albert Emmerich | Alessio de Paolis | Alexander Anisimov | Alexander Young | Alfons Herwig | Alfredo Giacomotti | Alicia Nafé | Alois Pernerstorfer | Ameral Gunson | Andrea Silvestrelli

Gebhardt

As your Ring reviewer of long standing, you may think I tire of listening to this great masterpiece – but,...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 2/2001

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