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Beethoven Mass in C
The alchemy ''that turneth all to gold'', active in Shaw's recording of the Missa solemnis (Telarc/Conifer (CD) CD80150, 11/88), does...
Reviewed in issue 2/1991
Nordheim Listen; Listen - Inside Outside; Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 32
Einar Steen-Nøkleberg | Gerhard Oppitz | Mats Claesson
It was Arne Nordheim’s notion to juxtapose his 1971 composition Listen with Beethoven’s C minor Sonata. Fortuitously, Einar Steen-Nøkleberg had...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 13/2007
Beethoven Symphonies Nos 1 & 2
Christoph von Dohnányi | Cleveland Orchestra
The First and Second Symphonies that round off Dohnanyi's Cleveland Beethoven cycle were recorded last October and December and show...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 6/1989
Beethoven Bagatelles
If we leave aside the separate pieces that Grove lists as Beethoven's bagatelles, one of which is Fur Elise, there...
Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 8/1992
Beethoven; Shostakovich String Quartets
The Atrium Quartet won first prize in the 2003 London International String Quartet Competition with a gripping account of Shostakovich’s...
Reviewed by Richard_Whitehouse in issue: 11/2008
Beethoven: Emperor Concerto
Artur Rother | Berlin Radio Orchestra | Walter Gieseking
Listening to this new issue with von Otter's Gramophone Award-winning disc of Grieg songs beside me, I certainly found the...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 4/1991
Beethoven Piano Concertos Nos 4 & 5
Enrique Bátiz | Jorge Federico Osorio | Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
I enjoyed this account of the Fourth Concerto when I first heard it on LP, and now that it appears...
Reviewed by Stephen Plaistow in issue: 7/1989
Beethoven The Complete Piano Trios
Why five discs when the much-praised Ashkenazy/Perlman/Harrell team on EMI (3/87—nla) fit Beethoven's complete works for violin, cello and piano...
Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 3/1992
Beethoven Late Piano Works
Earlier recordings by Jean-Francois Heisser have been largely given over to the music of late 19th- and early 20th-century composers:...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 9/2000
Beethoven (The) Complete String Quartets
Schubert wanted to hear the Op 131 quartet and his wish was granted five days before he died. Wagner believed...
Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 3/2006
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