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Beethoven Symphonies Nos 1 & 3
Philippe Herreweghe | Royal Flemish Philharmonic Orchestra
The ceremonial key of C major has virtually no sombre hues in Beethoven’s First Symphony. But it begins Adagio molto...
Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 10/2008
Beethoven Explored, Vol 1
Aaron Shorr | Peter Sheppard Skaerved
There must be many different ways of exploring Beethoven. Imaginative programming – putting Beethoven’s last violin and piano sonata together...
Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 10/2003
Lauritz Melchior's 1946-7 MGM Recordings
In the years just after the war, two of the 20th-century’s greatest singers, Pinza and Melchior, moved from the opera...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 2/2001
Beethoven Complete Violin Sonatas, Vol 2
Lovely to hear each of these four masterpieces granted its own unique personality. Try by way of an example the...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 11/2007
Works for String Quartet
Very clever. The Grosse Fuge is acclaimed in the notes accompanying this collection as ''the founding work of modern music''...
Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 11/1990
Beethoven Symphonies Nos 3 and 8
Vänskä’s Eroica comes to us primed for battle – an energetic, resilient, well drilled performance with surfaces of polished steel....
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 9/2006
Beethoven: Late String Quartets
The real criterion of the quality of any recording is not so much how much one admires it but rather...
Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 10/1986
Beethoven Piano Concerto No 5; Violin Concerto
Bruno Weil | Jos van Immerseel | Tafelmusik | Vera Beths
From the opening flourishes, played virtually a tempo, with minimal rhetorical grandeur, this is the straightest, most expressively austere reading...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 12/1998
Beethoven Symphonies Nos. 5 & 6
Two elegiac works, each of which is reported to have reduced its first audience to tears. Tchaikovsky’s Quartet was for...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 13/2011
Beethoven String Quartets 10 & 11
There is nothing overprojected or glamorized about these thoughtful and musicianly performances from the Delme Quartet, who allow the music...
Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 11/1989
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