Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 32 etc

Friedrich Gulda

Gulda clearly has lots of new things to say about Op. 111. By comparison with his recording once available on...

Reviewed in issue 5/1985

Beethoven Piano Sonatas Nos 1-3

Gerhard Oppitz

The second instalment of Gerhard Oppitz’s projected Beethoven cycle contains some of the best playing I’ve heard from him on...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 8/2006

Beethoven Diabelli Variations

Andreï Vieru

This is an interesting and unusual coupling, underpinned by the idea that Beethoven regarded his Diabelli Variations, despite their breadth...

Reviewed by Tim Parry in issue: 8/1998

Beethoven Diabelli Variations

Ian Fountain

Ian Fountain, who in 1989 won the Artur Rubinstein International Piano Masters Competition at the age of 19, offers an...

Reviewed by Tim Parry in issue: 7/1997

Beethoven String Quartet No 13; Grosse Fuge

Leipzig Quartet

Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 8/2007

Beethoven Folk Songs

Fontenay Trio | Wolfgang Holzmair

It takes courage – some would say nerve – for an Englishman to face the linguistic fences here at a...

Reviewed in issue 4/1998

Beethoven Piano Quartets

Anthony Goldstone | Cummings Trio

That's odd, I thought when this arrived, I don't seem to know anything about the Beethoven piano quartets. A glance...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 9/1987

Beethoven Piano Sonatas Nos 13, 14 and 30

Maria João Pires

The conditions Maria João Pires finds necessary for the realisation of her ideals are her business‚ not ours‚ so while...

Reviewed by kYlzrO1BaC7A in issue: 1/2002

Lars Vogt Piano Recital

Lars Vogt

I will not be the only person who remembers Lars Vogt as the fresh-faced and musicianly artist who came second...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 5/1992

Yvonne Kenny at the Wigmore Hall

Lawrence Skrobacs | Yvonne Kenny

Returning to this recital for the first time since its original issue, one feels that the Fiancailles pour rire, at...

Reviewed in issue 7/1990