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Beethoven String Quartets, Op 18 Nos 3 & 6
When most issues of Beethoven Op 18 easily manage to fit three quartets onto a CD, it seems rather mean...
Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 1/2002
Bernstein conducts Beethoven Cycles I-V
Perhaps reviewers of absolute music on DVD ought to switch off the visuals. If the soundtrack is palpably inferior to...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 5/2009
Beethoven String Quartets
The first sounds on this record prove to be admirably representative of the whole—not extreme in dynamic contrasts, not particularly...
Reviewed in issue 8/1988
Beethoven Lieder
Vermillion has enjoyed a successful career over the past ten years or so, dividing her time judiciously between the opera...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 7/1999
BEETHOVEN String Quartets Nos 1 - 3 (Eyblet Quartet)
It’s easy to forget that when Beethoven’s Op 18 quartets appeared in 1801 Haydn had yet to publish his own...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 05/2018
BEETHOVEN Symphony No 9
The Ninth at New Year is a Leipzig tradition instituted in 1918 by its music director, Artur Nikisch. The event...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 03/2017
BEETHOVEN Piano Sonata No 29. Eroica Variations (Pierre-Laurent Aimard)
Perhaps the biggest challenge of the Hammerklavier is the sheer multiplicity of its challenges: stamina and agility, both physical and...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 09/2021
BEETHOVEN String Quartets Op 18 Nos 4-6 (Chiaroscuro Quartet)
A few months back I sat on the jury of a string quartet competition and listened for two days to...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 05/2022
BRAHMS; BRUCH; SCHUBERT Trios
Ivan Martin | Joseph Shiner | Natalia Lomeiko | Somi Kim | Yuri Zhislin
The canon is dead, we’re told. And yet week in, week out, they keep coming: new recordings of supposed warhorses...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 10/2019
BEETHOVEN Piano Concertos Nos 1 & 2 (Giltburg)
Boris Giltburg | Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra | Vasily Petrenko
In most respects these are distinguished readings. Sonically speaking, the judicious balance between piano and orchestra conveys a palpable chamber-like...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 11/2019
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