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Beethoven Piano Concertos
Eugen Jochum | Karl Böhm | Maurizio Pollini | Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
Pollini's Beethoven is heard as its best in this recoupling where the distinguished 1976 recording of the G major Concerto...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 10/1984
Beethoven Symphony No. 9
This performance has become a legendary one, as much for the occasion of its happening as for the music-making itself....
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 3/1985
Beethoven Piano Works
Karl Böhm | Maurizio Pollini | Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
It is good idea that for this CD version DG have included a sonata as well as the concerto, increasing...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 11/1984
Wagner Der Ring des Nibelungen
Now that Kenneth Gilbert's admirable recording of these works (8/86) seems to have been withdrawn, Suzuki's chief rival, so far...
Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 2/2000
BEETHOVEN Symphony No 9 (Böhm)
None of the six occasions on which the Ninth has been given at Bayreuth have lacked cultural or political significance....
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 12/2017
Beethoven;Chopin;Haydn Piano Works
BBC Legends are unstinting where Sviatoslav Richter is concerned and this twoCD set is taken from recitals given between 196769...
Reviewed in issue 5/2002
Liszt/Beethoven Piano Works
Kyrill Kondrashin | London Symphony Orchestra | Sviatoslav Richter
Even at full-price and without coupling this version of the Liszt concertos might well have been a personal first choice....
Reviewed in issue 9/1992
Feodor Chaliapin Song Book Electrical Recordings
This is a welcome library edition, for though most of the individual items are already on CD in one issue...
Reviewed in issue 6/1993
Menahem Pressler: Tales from Vienna
At an age when most instrumentalists have opted for a quieter life, Menahem Pressler – 90 in December – is...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 11/2013
Song's First Cycle: Mozart, Schubert, Beethoven, Weber
Malcolm Martineau | Robin Tritschler
Robin Tritschler and Malcolm Martineau explore the early history of the song-cycle in this thoughtful recital, which flanks Beethoven’s An...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 01/2020
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