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Schubert/Liszt Wanderer Fantasy
Copenhagen Philharmonic Orchestra | Elisabeth Westenholz | Kees Bakels
A plausible programme let down by Westenholz’s often straitjacketed playing and a two-dimensional recording. The closing fugato passages in the...
Reviewed by kYlzrO1BaC7A in issue: 13/1998
Beethoven Missa Solemnis
This must surely be the just about the toughest nut our period performers have yet attempted to crack: a work...
Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 8/1988
Beethoven Quartet Orchestrations
Leonard Bernstein | Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
When the young Leonard Bernstein was a student at Harvard University he went to Dmitri Mitropoulos's first concert with the...
Reviewed by rgolding in issue: 11/1992
Beethoven Piano Works
City of London Sinfonia | Cristina Ortiz | Richard Hickox
On the face of it this is excellent value, for the recording is first class, the record is inexpensive and...
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 8/1988
Beethoven: Piano Sonatas
Bernstein's last recording of this symphony was made for CBS in 1968 with the New York Philharmonic (72733, 10/69—nla) and...
Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 11/1987
Beethoven Late Piano Sonatas
This remarkable set of the late Beethoven piano sonatas was recorded by Charles Rosen in four London-based vacations in EMI's...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 11/1994
Mozart 'Coronation' Mass
Günter Wand | West German Radio Chorus | West German Radio Symphony Orchestra
Amid a swathe of desirable radio recordings from Günter Wand’s long years as Kapellmeister in Cologne, these 1952‑53 Mozart and...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 9/2008
Beethoven Symphonies Nos. 5 & 6
For most younger collectors Toscanini, Furtwangler and Beecham are living legends but I venture to suggest that by their side...
Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 7/1997
Beethoven String Quartets, Opp 127 & 130
The Borodins’ Beethoven series has, with this fourth volume, reached the halfway mark – time for assessment, perhaps. The impact...
Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 4/2005
Beethoven (The) Late Quartets
Late Beethoven is all about contrasts: prayer and play, structural logic and emotional candour, relative convention and daring. Wherever you...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 5/2005
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