BEETHOVEN Symphony No 8. Piano Concerto (Wallisch)

Gottlieb Wallisch | Martin Haselböck | Vienna Academy Orchestra

For the sixth instalment of their ‘Resound’ project – Beethoven’s orchestral works performed in the Viennese venues where they were...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: AW/2018

Wilhelm Backhaus: Chopin, Liszt, Schumann & Beethoven

Wilhelm Backhaus’s Chopin Études, Opp 10 and 25 from 1928, were the first to be recorded as a complete set...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 12/2018

BEETHOVEN The complete string quartets, Vols 5 & 6

Elias String Quartet

I’ve been trying to put my finger on what it is about the Elias Quartet’s interpretative style that’s so powerfully...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 12/2018

BEETHOVEN 5 Cello Sonatas (Leonard Elschenbroich)

Alexei Grynyuk | Leonard Elschenbroich

There’s little in Beethoven’s output that’s undervalued but I have the sense that the cello sonatas don’t quite get the...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 06/2019

BRUCKNER Symphony No 7 (Gilbert)

Alan Gilbert | NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester

This recording of Bruckner’s Seventh Symphony has been released to coincide with the start of Alan Gilbert’s tenure as principal...

Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 11/2019

BEETHOVEN Piano Sonatas Nos 30 - 32 (Maurizio Pollini)

Maurizio Pollini

For pianists and music lovers who came of age in the 1970s and ’80s, Maurizio Pollini’s Beethoven recordings were considered...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 04/2020

BEETHOVEN Early String Quartets

Narratio Quartet

These are, in their own modest way, quite daring interpretations of Beethoven’s six ‘early’ quartets. There have been other recordings...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 07/2024

BEETHOVEN Piano Trios Vol 3 (Sitkovetsky Trio)

Sitkovetsky Piano Trio

Just as in his symphonies, Beethoven found a new character, a new mode of expression for each of his piano...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 09/2024

Mozart Sinfonia Concertante, K364. Schubert String Quintet

Amadeus Qt | Harry Blech | London Mozart Players | Norbert Brainin | Peter Schidlof | William Pleeth

It is good to be reminded of the early mastery of the Amadeus players, even before they won the accolade...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 9/1999

Beethoven Symphony No. 9

(Royal) Concertgebouw Orchestra, Amsterdam | Louis van Tulder | Suze Luger | To van der Sluys | Toonkunst Choir | Willem Mengelberg | Willem Ravelli

Of the four numbers that Sibelius supplied for the February 1898 Helsinki premiere of Adolf Paul’s historical drama King Christian...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 6/1999