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BEETHOVEN Symphony No 9 (Furtwängler)
Wilhelm Furtwängler’s way with Beethoven’s Choral Symphony approximates a shared ritual. It is quite literally spellbinding, whether in the slowly...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 03/2022
Beethoven Missa Solemnis
Though this is not a period performance – as one might have expected from Sir Roger Norrington – his allegiances...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 3/2001
Beethoven Symphonies, etc
I remember with great affection the Schubert symphony cycle that Menuhin recorded for HMV with the Bath Festival Chamber Orchestra...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 4/1996
Beethoven Chamber Works
Beethoven's Septet is a charming work whose importance lies not only in its consolidation of its composer's style before its...
Reviewed in issue 11/1993
Beethoven Orchestral Works
London Classical Players | Roger Norrington
It is probably not by chance that this new period instrument performance of the Eroica Symphony is prefaced by the...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 4/1989
Beethoven Violin Concertos; Romances
Frans Brüggen | Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century | Thomas Zehetmair
This is a great performance, one that simply has to be heard. In the first movement, the question of tempo...
Reviewed in issue 4/1999
Beethoven Choral Symphony
Issued to coincide with the European tour of the Cleveland Orchestra, this fine account of the Ninth Symphony brings a...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 2/1986
Verdi Requiem & Schubert Mass 6
All things come to those who wait, I reflected, when I saw that BBC Legends had chosen to release Giulini’s...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 7/2000
Beethoven Piano Trios
After their welcome Pickwick coupling of the two Op. 70 Trios (11/92), the Solomon Trio have now moved on to...
Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 3/1994
Beethoven Symphonies No 3 & 8
Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie, Bremen | Paavo Järvi
Urgency is the keyword here, a quality underlined in part by the use of a virtuoso chamber orchestra and also...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 1/2008
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