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Beethoven Piano Sonatas, Vol 2
Paul Lewis’s three-disc second volume of his Beethoven sonata cycle is of such eloquence and mastery (the one inseparable from...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 12/2006
BEETHOVEN Late String Quartets – Amadeus Quartet
As a glance at the small print above will show DG have issued the Amadeus cycle from the 1960s on...
Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 1/1989
Beethoven String Quartets Op. 135 & 127
Beethoven’s last quartet opens to a dour viola solo answered by a flicking first fiddle. The breezy first subject signals...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 10/2000
Beethoven Symphony No 3
Academy of Ancient Music | Christopher Hogwood
Turning his back on the long tradition of weighty, large-orchestra Eroicas and on the Wagner-Bulow-Strauss school of interpretation, Hogwood here...
Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 11/1986
Beethoven Symphonies Nos 5 & 6
Bruno Weil is best known for his performances of the Classical and early Romantic repertory, notably the choral works of...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 8/2005
Beethoven Piano Concerto No.4; Piano Sonatas Op.109 & 110
Hélène Grimaud | Kurt Masur | New York Philharmonic Orchestra
'Her playing combines extreme exploitation of force, of masculine sculpting of tone, with the utmost lightness and elasticity of the...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 2/2000
Beethoven Piano Trios
Growing older doesn’t always mean growing wiser‚ though in the case of the Beaux Arts Trio and Beethoven the passage...
Reviewed in issue 11/2001
Beethoven/Bruch Violin Concertos
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra | Georg Kulenkampff | Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt | Joseph Keilberth
The German violinist Georg Kulenkampff enjoyed a very high reputation throughout Europe during the inter-war period, but his career came...
Reviewed in issue 11/1993
Beethoven Works for Winds
Listening to the Octet and Rondino, both of which date from 1792, I was continually struck by how much mature...
Reviewed by mtaylor in issue: 2/2000
Beethoven Piano Concertos Nos 1 and 2
Bruno Weil | Jos van Immerseel | Tafelmusik
This period-instrument orchestra and their conductor make an immediately pleasing impression at the start of these concertos, and their freshness...
Reviewed by Stephen Plaistow in issue: 2/1997
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