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BEETHOVEN Symphonies Nos 5 & 6
South West German Radio Symphony Orchestra, Baden-Baden and Freiburg | Sylvain Cambreling
Sylvain Cambreling is most often namechecked in Gramophone, at least by me, for his recordings of Salvatore Sciarrino, Morton Feldman,...
Reviewed by Philip_Clark in issue: AW/2012
BEETHOVEN Piano Sonatas Vol 4
The Beethoven sonata cycle that Jonathan Biss launched on Avie now reaches its halfway mark via Meyer Media with Vol...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 05/2015
BEETHOVEN String Quartets Nos 1 & 14
Audite’s recording is close if not claustrophobic, close enough to differentiate the character of the four Italian instruments as well...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 06/2015
BEETHOVEN Symphony No 6. Egmont Overture
Klaus Tennstedt | London Philharmonic Orchestra
Listening to this entrancing and yet deeply affecting performance of Beethoven’s Pastoral Symphony, it is easy see why, with all...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 07/2015
BEETHOVEN Complete String Trios
A new set of Beethoven’s string trios is always a welcome event, and this one, by a group named after...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: AW2015
Beethoven Symphonies Nos. 5 & 6
(Royal) Concertgebouw Orchestra, Amsterdam | Erich Kleiber
These recordings appeared in impeccable French LP transfers two years ago and their transfer to the new medium is most...
Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 9/1987
Beethoven Complete Piano Concertos
BBC Symphony Orchestra | Jirí Belohlávek | Paul Lewis
With this three-disc album of Beethoven’s piano concertos Paul Lewis complements his earlier set of the 32 sonatas and also...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 9/2010
Beethoven Variations & Bagatelles
In DG’s eight-disc compilation of Beethoven’s miscellaneous piano works it was Pletnev, along with the young Italian Gianluca Cascioli, who...
Reviewed in issue 6/2001
Beethoven Piano Works played on the Fortepiano
The F minor Sonata of Op. 2 goes quite well on this Schantz piano of 1797, but I am not...
Reviewed by Stephen Plaistow in issue: 9/1985
Schubert and Strauss Lieder
A revelatory reissue, this, not least for its three Strauss orchestral songs, conducted by the composer himself. Both Heimliche Aufforderung...
Reviewed by hfinch in issue: 6/1986
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