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Mendelssohn; Mozart; Schubert String Quartets
Two years ago the Elias bounded into my musical consciousness with a sensational disc of Mendelssohn quartets. Here was an...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 10/2009
Mozart/Schubert/Wolf Chamber Works
Andreas Haefliger | Joseph Carver | Takács Qt | Takács Quartet
These three examples of Viennese entertainment music happily complement one another. If the programme as a whole appeals then the...
Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 3/1999
Beethoven Symphonies
Frans Brüggen | Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century
Bruggen directs hard-driven, almost consciously abrasive performances of these two symphonies—symphonies that are generally thought to be among Beethoven's more...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 6/1992
Beethoven Triple Concerto; Piano Concerto, Op 61.
(Nicolaus) Esterházy Sinfonia | Béla Drahos | Dong-Suk Kang | Jenö Jandó | Maria Kliegel
True to form, Naxos have come up trumps with an imaginative and useful coupling. How often, I wonder, must collectors...
Reviewed in issue 12/1998
Beamish; Beethoven String Quartets
Sally Beamish explains that Beethoven’s Op 18 No 4 gave her, at 14, her first experience of quartet playing. So...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 2/2006
Beethoven Chamber music
Bruno Canino | Bruno Giuranna | Franco Gulli | Klaus Thunemann | Peter-Lukas Graf
Unimportant Beethoven, some would say. The Trio for flute, bassoon and piano belongs to the quite small number of works...
Reviewed by Stephen Plaistow in issue: 5/1985
Beethoven Piano Concertos Nos 4 and 5
Gerhard Oppitz | Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra | Marek Janowski
Having been less than enthusiastic about Gerhard Oppitz’s Leipzig recordings of the First and Third Concertos (RCA, 4/96), I have...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 6/1997
Beethoven: Early String Quartets
As I have often written, it goes without saying that no one ensemble can unlock all the secrets contained in...
Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 2/1990
Beethoven Piano Concertos Nos 3 & 6
Scholarship pertaining to the 18th and early 19th centuries is misapplied. “Often fewer strings were used for concertos,” says Arthur...
Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 13/2008
BEETHOVEN String Quartets Nos 12 - 16
Camerata Nordica | Terje Tønnesen
Mahler, Mitropoulos and Bernstein seeded the idea, and now the Norwegian violinist and conductor Terje Tønnesen allows it to blossom...
Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 08/2014
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