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BEETHOVEN Complete Works for Piano Vol 13
Vol 13 of Ronald Brautigam’s cycle encompassing Beethoven’s complete solo piano output sheds fresh light on familiar and relatively obscure...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 08/2014
Dorothea Röschmann: Portraits
Dorothea Röschmann | Malcolm Martineau
Here is a portrait gallery of women in 19th-century German song, comprising two collections depicting Mignon (by Schubert and Wolf)...
Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 03/2015
Tchaikovsky Souvenir de Florence; Schubert Minuets with Trios
(I) Musici de Montreal | Yuli Turovsky
The chilly acoustic of L'Eglise de Ste Madeleine, Montreal, doesn't exactly help matters, but even so, I have heard sunnier...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 9/1989
Brahms Symphony No 4. Schubert Symphony No. 5
BBC Symphony Orchestra | Rudolf Kempe
Rudolf Kempe’s Musical Directorship of the BBC Symphony Orchestra (post Boulez) gave every indication of becoming what we would now...
Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 2/1999
Beethoven Complete Violin Sonatas
Augustin Dumay | Maria João Pires
Every track on this set shows Maria João Pires and Augustin Dumay’s well-established rapport that makes it second nature for...
Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 12/2002
BEETHOVEN Symphonies Nos 1-9
If Haydn spoke his last word on the symphony in 1795, Beethoven’s First five years later is no mere extension...
Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 01/2013
BEETHOVEN Piano Concerto No 1. KUHLAU Piano Concerto Op 7
Copenhagen Philharmonic Orchestra | Marianna Shirinyan | Michael Francis | Rolf Gupta
Kuhlau was not the luckiest man on earth. He lost an eye in childhood, had to escape over the border...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 01/2013
BEETHOVEN Piano Concertos Nos 2 & 4
Leif Ove Andsnes | Mahler Chamber Orchestra
My reaction when asked to review this disc was a somewhat uncritical ‘hurray’, having immensely enjoyed the first volume of...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 06/2014
BEETHOVEN Symphony No 9 'Choral'
This is a performance on period instruments by a chamber orchestra, but that is not to say that the sound...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 02/2012
BEETHOVEN String Quintets Op 4 & Op 29
Barbara Buntrock | Leipzig Quartet
Scholar Marion M Scott described Op 29 as ‘a very beautiful work – beautiful both from its themes and the...
Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 04/2012
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