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BEETHOVEN Piano Sonatas Nos 3, 23 & 30
As a Beethoven interpreter, Angela Brownridge hits and misses. Her long experience with Op 2 No 3 reveals itself in...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: AW16
BEETHOVEN Complete Violin Sonatas
Pierre Fouchenneret | Romain Descharmes
This set of the 10 Beethoven violin sonatas took me by surprise. Let’s start with the sound, which is exceptionally...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 12/2016
BEETHOVEN String Quartet No 13. Grosse Fuge
Initial brownie points on the issue of repeats, both in the first movement (fairly crucial in my view) and the...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 12/2014
BRAHMS Piano Trio No 3 SCHUBERT Piano Trio No 2
An impressive opening to Brahms’s Trio, Allegro energico as specified. Instrumental balance too is just. But Wu Qian tends to...
Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 01/2015
BEETHOVEN String Quartets Nos 7 - 11
It isn’t difficult to feel confident as the Cypress Quartet launch into the first movement of Op 59 No 1....
Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 02/2015
BEETHOVEN Overtures. Wellington's Victory (Bosch)
Cappella Aquileia | Frederic Böhle | Marcus Bosch | Raffaela Lintl
Past a sonorous first chord, the rhetorically moulded opening to Egmont may take the unwary listener by surprise, but the...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 10/2021
BEETHOVEN Piano Concertos Nos 3 & 4 (Boris Giltburg)
Boris Giltburg | Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra | Vasily Petrenko
The Third and Fourth Concertos round out what has been an impressive Beethoven cycle. Let’s start with the conducting. Vasily...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 04/2023
BEETHOVEN Cello Sonatas Nos. 1-5 (complete). Variations
What better way to celebrate an important birthday than with the Beethoven cello sonatas? It’s hard to believe that Ralph...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 02/2017
BEETHOVEN Symphonies 1 - 4
Bruno Weil | Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra
The Prometheus Overture augurs well, a brightly lit performance, unhurried and nicely shaped with unforced accents. Coriolan on the other...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 08/2014
SCHULHOFF Concertos for Piano, Flue & Piano and String Quartet
Here are three substantial concertos from the pen of the Czech-Jewish composer Ervín Schulhoff (1894-1942), the earliest being the second...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 09/2014
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