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BEETHOVEN Symphony No 9 'Choral'
The opening is transparent, the triplet semiquavers on second violins and cellos pianissimo but definite. Rhythmic snatches from first violins...
Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 05/2012
Beethoven String Quartet,Op 130; Grosse Fuge, Op 133
The Cleveland Quartet’s pilgrimage through the Beethoven canon (previously reviewed 5/93, 2/94, 10/94, 8/95 and 3/96) has, with this latest...
Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 9/1997
Beethoven: Overtures
Klaus Tennstedt | London Philharmonic Orchestra
The CD undoutedly brings a gain in freshness to the sound. The recordings are truthful in perspective and detail and...
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 8/1985
Beethoven Cello Variations
Lois Shapiro | Pieter Wispelwey
There may be only 45 minutes of it but this recital of Beethoven variations teems with fresh insights in the...
Reviewed by hfinch in issue: 4/1995
Beethoven Triple Concerto; Romances
Christian Zacharias | Heinrich Schiff | Kurt Masur | Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra | Ulf Hoelscher
The Triple Concerto is not a feeble work of Beethoven's, as it is often considered; and if I state that...
Reviewed in issue 5/1987
BEETHOVEN Complete Piano Sonatas Vol 2, Nos 11 - 21
Not every track on these three CDs is perfection but they proclaim an artist of exceptional calibre establishing a position...
Reviewed by Stephen Plaistow in issue: 02/2014
SCHUBERT Piano Works
Bertrand Chamayou, on his first disc for Erato, offers a kind of Schubertiade of the mind – and it proves...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 05/2014
Beethoven: The Nine Symphonies
The separate release last October of the Fifth and Seventh Symphonies revealed Beethoven playing of greater clarity, finish, and authority...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 6/1988
Beethoven String Quartets 9 & 12
With some of the earlier Kodaly Beethoven issues I've found the playing a bit too comfortable and bland, while enjoying...
Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 1/2000
Beethoven Symphonies 5 & 7
Christian Thielemann | Philharmonia Orchestra
In a notebook entry dated 1951, during one of his many fulminations against the newly fashionable literalism in the interpretation...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 3/1997
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