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Beethoven/Danzi/Ries Horn Sonatas
Edoardo Torbianelli | Thomas Müller
Brahms made it plain that he wanted his Horn Trio to be played on a hand horn‚ with stopped notes‚...
Reviewed in issue 1/2002
Brahms/Schubert Piano Quintets
Amadeus Qt | Clifford Curzon | James Edward Merrett
I put this set on at the end of a day-long listening session, and by the time it had finished,...
Reviewed in issue 1/1999
Beethoven String Quartets Op 18 Nos 1-6
Much as I have enjoyed other digital recordings of Beethoven’s first quartets by (for example) the Tak·cs and Lindsay Quartets, this...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 2/2008
Beethoven Piano Trios
Kalichstein/Laredo/Robinson Trio
''Only £7 99'' announces the sticker on the front of this CD, and at that price these 63 minutes or...
Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 1/1988
Beethoven: Fidelio
This is a Fidelio that approaches the work very much from the Singspiel standpoint. There is no attempt at romantic...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 9/1990
Beethoven Works for Violin and Orchestra
Jaime Laredo | Scottish Chamber Orchestra
Jaime Laredo's performance of the Beethoven Concerto is scholarly, cultured and innovative. It is also daring, in that Laredo chooses...
Reviewed by mjameson in issue: 4/1992
Beethoven Cello Sonatas
Friedrich Gulda | Pierre Fournier
The obvious point of comparison here is the live recording of the same repertoire that Fournier made with Kempff some...
Reviewed in issue 6/1993
Beethoven Symphonies Nos 2 & 8
Charles Mackerras | Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
Sir Charles Mackerras’s recording makes a first-rate budget-price recommendation for this sensible though by no means usual coupling of Beethoven...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 7/1998
Beethoven Symphonies Nos 4 & 7
Douglas Boyd | Manchester Camerata
Thirty years ago, “chamber orchestra” Beethoven was considered to be a mildly interesting eccentricity; nowadays it is practically de rigueur....
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 12/2008
Rostropovich/Britten Recital
As Graham Johnson puts it in a perceptive essay on Britten the Instrumental Accompanist included here instead of conventional analytical...
Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 9/1987
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