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SCHUBERT Piano Sonata. 4 Impromptus (Buniatishvili)
The Georgian pianist Khatia Buniatishvili, now just into her thirties, is an artist of strong convictions but it is still...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 06/2019
BEETHOVEN Piano Trios, Vol 3 (Van Baerle Trio)
When the Van Baerle Trio released the first disc in their Beethoven cycle (4/18), I reviewed it here with a...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 07/2019
SCHUBERT Schwanengesang BRAHMS Vier Ernste Gesänge (Finley & Drake)
Gerald Finley is never an artist, one feels, to let himself be rushed, allowing his interpretations to mellow and mature...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: AW2019
BEETHOVEN Complete Symphonies (Nelsons)
How refreshing that Andris Nelsons comes to the Beethoven symphonies with no discernible interpretative axe to grind. He seems unconcerned...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 11/2019
BEETHOVEN Piano Concertos Nos 2 & 5 (Martin Helmchen)
Andrew Manze | Berlin German Symphony Orchestra | Martin Helmchen
This is Martin Helmchen and Andrew Manze’s first volume in a promised complete survey of Beethoven’s concertos. Yes, yet another...
Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 12/2019
BEETHOVEN Piano Sonatas, Vols 7-9 (Boris Giltburg)
To mark Beethoven’s 2020 anniversary year, Boris Giltburg set himself the task of filming all 32 Beethoven piano sonatas in...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 08/2021
BEETHOVEN Diabelli Variations (Mitsuko Uchida)
Has Diabelli’s innocent theme ever been given such a sharp profile, I wonder? The grace notes are fractionally elongated, so...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 05/2022
'Beethoven the Conquering Hero' Complete Cello Sonatas (Jennifer Kloetzel)
Jennifer Kloetzel | Robert Koenig
Sample Jennifer Kloetzel’s solo phrase at the start of Beethoven’s Variations on Handel’s ‘See the conqu’ring hero comes’ and you’ll...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 05/2022
BEETHOVEN Piano Concertos Nos 4 & 5
Hannes Minnaar | Jan Willem de Vriend | Netherlands Symphony Orchestra
I’m not sure who’s the hero of the hour in this recording – the pianist, the orchestra or the timpanist....
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 08/2015
BEETHOVEN Piano Sonatas Nos 21 & 29
Korean-born Sunwook Kim came to prominence in 2006 at the age of 18, when he won the Leeds International Competition....
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 01/2016
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