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Beethoven Piano Sonatas, Vol 4
Only an extended essay could do justice to the fourth and final volume of Paul Lewis’s Beethoven sonata cycle. But...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 6/2008
Beethoven Piano Concertos Nos 1 & 5
Barry Douglas | Camerata Ireland | David Zinman | Yefim Bronfman | Zurich Tonhalle Orchestra
Playing these two versions of the First Concerto's opening movement one after the other is a telling exercise in comparative...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 12/2006
Beethoven Symphony No 9
There is a sense of occasion about this recording of the Ninth Symphony generated not by musicological probings or contingent...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 1/1991
Beethoven String Quartets
I like the rather slow tempos in the first two movements of the E flat, and I don't think I...
Reviewed in issue 4/1983
Beethoven Complete Music for String Trio
These recordings were very well received when first issued, and one can see why. The playing is beautifully matched and...
Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 3/2004
Beethoven Violin Sonatas
Brigitte Engerer | Olivier Charlier
The potent energy in Beethoven’s Opp. 30 and 47 Violin Sonatas offers compelling evidence of the composer’s glowing creative originality....
Reviewed in issue 6/1996
Beethoven Choral Symphony
At the end of a chapter entitled ''Performance and tradition'' in a superb new Cambridge Music Handbook on Beethoven's Ninth...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 10/1993
BEETHOVEN Complete Piano Trios Vol 1
Hot on the heels of the Wanderer’s complete set of trios comes the first volume from the Gould Trio, captured...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 08/2012
BEETHOVEN Complete Piano Trios
This is the Trio Wanderer’s 25th-birthday present to itself, and within the slimline package lie riches indeed. We begin with...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 07/2012
BEETHOVEN Missa Solemnis
My viewing completed, I thought to myself: this has to be the greatest religious work of them all. The ultimate...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 02/2012
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