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Beethoven: Middle-period string quartets
An interesting inclusion in this new DG set is the only currently available version of Beethoven's transcription of his Op....
Reviewed in issue 11/1985
Beethoven String Quartets
These are very fine performances. The Petersen Quartet came together in Berlin in 1979, when they were still students, and...
Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 3/1995
Beethoven Cello Sonatas Nos 2, 3 and 5
If you’re not sure about the advantages of original-instrument performance of classical chamber music, try this disc! Watkin and Moody...
Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 10/1996
Beethoven String Quintets
Fine Arts Quartet | Gil Sharon
The highly experienced Fine Arts Quartet (and their guest) represent a style of string playing that places great stress on...
Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 10/2010
Beethoven Violin Sonatas
Anne-Sophie Mutter | Lambert Orkis
Given Mutter’s current standing, it may seem heretical to say that in these two sonatas I found her tone rather...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 3/2001
Beethoven Unknown Works, Volume 2
Much of the music here is only comparatively unknown, in that a careful trawl through the Gramophone Database...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 1/1997
Beethoven Piano Trios
We’re not told if the Vienna Piano Trio (average age still only 30) intend to join such illustrious teams as...
Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 7/1997
Beethoven Concertos
This is another excellent disc in the Tring/RPO Beethoven series (Piano Concertos Nos. 2 and 3 were reviewed in 1/97)....
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 6/1997
Beethoven Piano Sonatas, Vol. 5
Beethoven's Op. 10 Sonatas are natural companions on disc, summing up as they do the achievements of his early keyboard...
Reviewed in issue 12/1990
Great Pianists of the 20th Century - Stephen Kovacevich
Stephen Kovacevich is introduced to this series by Beethoven and Beethoven alone. This is not the mature and latterly magisterial...
Reviewed by hfinch in issue: 10/1998
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