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Beethoven: Piano Works
Magisterial is the word for Gilels's Eroica Variations. Writing in 1982, RO found it ''a performance of great forcefulness and...
Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 12/1987
Beethoven Complete Cello Sonatas and Variations
Dejan Lazic | Pieter Wispelwey
In a rich period of Beethoven cello and piano issues, this latest contender offers highly distinctive performances, played with enormous...
Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 6/2005
Koussevitzky Double-bass Recordings & Early Boston SO
Boston Symphony Orchestra | Pierre Luboshutz | Serge Koussevitzky
The Boston Symphony have never sounded so richly sonorous or as imaginatively vital than they did during Koussevitzky's reign. Nowadays...
Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 9/1994
Brahms Tragic Overture; Schubert Symphony No 9; Weber Oberon Overture
Klaus Tennstedt | London Philharmonic Orchestra
Schubert's “Great C major” is a symphony which cannot be learnt; a conductor either feels it in his bones or...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 1/2007
Beethoven String Quartets Op 59 Nos 2 & 3
This isn’t just another Rasumovsky recording: the Brodskys manage to sound thoroughly individual without ever seeming eccentric or one-sided. They...
Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 7/2006
Beethoven Late Quartets
Busch Chamber Players (USA) | Busch Qt
Returning to these wonderful recordings for the umpteenth time confirms such perennial qualities as crystal-clear articulation, a keen sense of...
Reviewed in issue 8/1999
Beethoven Symphony 5; Leonora Overtures
André Previn | Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
A solidly played, warm-toned account of the Fifth Symphony will probably excite someone unfamiliar with the music but it can...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 1/1990
Brahms & Schubert Cello Sonatas
Personality aplenty in a perky Arpeggione that stretches Schubert’s amiable attitude to almost jovial proportions. Volger’s 1724 “Hausmann” Stradivari cello...
Reviewed by mquinn in issue: 10/1998
Beethoven Piano Sonatas, Vol. 1
It was in the mid 1960s that Bruno-Leonardo Gelber began to make a name for himself with a number of...
Reviewed by James Methuen-Campbell in issue: 9/1988
Beethoven Piano Trios Vol. 3
In this third volume of their Beethoven piano trio cycle (the first and second were reviewed 4/91 and 3/92), the...
Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 11/1992
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