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Beethoven Symphonies
London Symphony Orchestra | Wyn Morris
The sight of a Gramophone reviewer going overboard about yet another 'home-grown' product will no doubt be greeted abroad with...
Reviewed by Stephen Johnson in issue: 2/1990
Beethoven Symphony 6 & Leonore 3
Saito Kinen Orchestra | Seiji Ozawa
This is a Pastoral of an altogether special pedigree and temper, easy of movement, gracious of gesture, exquisitely finished. It...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: /2000
Beethoven Piano Sonatas
If I am not mistaken this is Stephen Kovacevich's first solo recording for six or seven years, and it demonstrates...
Reviewed in issue 10/1992
Yvonne Kenny at the Wigmore Hall
Lawrence Skrobacs | Yvonne Kenny
Turning up the files to see what the press had to say about the occasion, I found the Daily Telegraph...
Reviewed in issue 4/1985
Beethoven Irish, Welsh and Scottish Songs
Alessandro Moccia | Alix Verzier | Jérôme Hantaï | Paul Agnew | Peter Harvey | Sophie Daneman
With 140 to choose from‚ here is an excellent selection of Beethoven’s folksong arrangements‚ performed with all due care and...
Reviewed in issue 12/2001
Beethoven Piano Trios
As a fine pianist himself, the young Beethoven gave the keyboard an all-important role in his first three piano trios...
Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 8/1993
Beethoven Complete String Quartets
Three hundred words the Editor sternly admonishes, so I had better be brief! But in fact the claims of this...
Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 4/1993
Beethoven Choral Symphony
Morris presents the Ninth Symphony in a traditional reading, warm and eloquent and persuasively played and sung. The first movement...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 11/1989
Beethoven Piano Works, Vol 7
The iconic status of Schnabel’s pioneering Beethoven sonata recordings is amply confirmed by Volume 7 of Naxos’s continuing series. Superbly...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 1/2005
Beethoven Septet; String Quintet, Op 29
Academy of St Martin in the Fields Chamber Ensemble
Beethoven’s String Quintet does not get as many performances or recordings as such a fine and original work deserves. Perhaps...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 8/1999
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