BEETHOVEN Symphonies Nos 1-3 BARRY Piano Concerto

Britten Sinfonia | Nicolas Hodges | Thomas Adès

In a recent Gramophone interview (5/20), Thomas Adès conjured the image of Gerald Barry ‘prowling around rehearsals with a metronome...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 07/2020

BEETHOVEN Piano Trio Op 70 No 2. Symphony No 2 (Beethoven Trio Bonn)

Beethoven Trio Bonn

The second of Beethoven’s Op 70 pair is rather the poor relation among the numbered piano trios, its radiance effaced...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 09/2020

Beethoven's Ninth: Symphony for the World

‘A breathtaking documentary about the greatest symphony of all time.’ ‘Not just for fans of classical music!’ You have been...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: AW20

BEETHOVEN Piano Sonatas Vols 4-6 (Boris Giltburg)

Boris Giltburg

A cursory glance at a couple of catalogues purportedly maintaining lists of commercially available recordings reveals some 42 pianists, living...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 03/2021

BEETHOVEN Missa solemnis (Jacobs)

Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin | Berlin RIAS Chamber Choir | Johannes Weisser | Polina Pasztircsak | René Jacobs | Sophie Harmsen | Steve Davislim

The sound stage of this studio recording mirrors the unusual stage disposition designed by René Jacobs for the concert tour...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 04/2021

BEETHOVEN Symphonies Nos 6 & 8

Bonn Beethoven Orchestra | Stefan Blunier

It takes a mere four seconds to fathom the gist of Stefan Blunier’s Beethoven Eighth. A forceful opening, followed by...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 08/2015

Tides of Life

Amsterdam Sinfonietta | Candida Thompson | Netherlands Female Youth Choir | Thomas Hampson

This album reflects a tour undertaken by Thomas Hampson and the Amsterdam Sinfonietta, for which several new string-orchestra arrangements of...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 04/2017

BEETHOVEN Diabelli Variations. Six National Airs

Ronald Brautigam

The number of pianists who have recorded memorable accounts of the Diabelli Variations is surprisingly small. Among long-established classic versions,...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 05/2017

BEETHOVEN Symphony No 3. Fidelio Overture

London Philharmonic Orchestra | Wladimir Jurowski

Discreetly attentive to detail yet exalted in expression, a Festival Hall Pastoral from this team last January raised expectations that...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 06/2017

BEETHOVEN Sonatas for Fortepiano and Violin Vol 3

Ian Watson | Susanna Ogata

‘Sonatas for Fortepiano and Violin’ declares the cover of this latest release in Ian Watson and Susanna Ogata’s cycle of...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 09/2017