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BEETHOVEN Symphonies Nos 5 & 6 (Janowski)
Marek Janowski | WDR Symphony Orchestra
Beethoven represents the greatest challenge, said Marek Janowski in a recent interview: quite a claim for an 80-year-old conductor with...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 01/2020
BEETHOVEN Complete String Quartets Vol 3 (Casals Quartet)
As Teodor Currentzis remarked about recording Beethoven’s symphonies, there is a danger, even in sets of such exceptional character as...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 06/2020
BEETHOVEN Complete Works for Fortepiano and Violoncello (Nicolas Altstaedt)
Alexander Lonquich | Nicolas Altstaedt
For this new recording of Beethoven’s music for cello and keyboard, Nicolas Altstaedt plays on a gut-strung Guadagnini cello from...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 07/2020
BEETHOVEN Symphony No 9 (Honeck)
Grafting local vines on to European rootstock is how the great American orchestras were first established and how many continue...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 05/2021
BEETHOVEN Piano Concertos 4 & 5
Insula Orchestra | Laurence Equilbey | Nicholas Angelich
This new account of Beethoven’s last two piano concertos finds Nicholas Angelich in the company of Laurence Equilbey’s period-instrument Insula...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 12/2018
BEETHOVEN Piano Trios (Trio Goya)
Beethoven took tremendous care with his Op 1, striving to present himself to a wider public in the best possible...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: AW18
BEETHOVEN Violin Sonatas Nos 1, 5 & 10 (Gatto & Libeer)
It might seem perverse to begin a chamber review by discussing the piano, especially when the violinist Lorenzo Gatto is...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 11/2018
Mona Asuka: Schubert, Liszt
In Schubert’s C minor Impromptu, Mona Asuka’s evenly balanced opening G natural octaves and plaintive shaping of the single-line phrase are offset by...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: AW17
BEETHOVEN The Late Quartets (Calidore String Quartet)
The Calidore Quartet prime their tonal canvas in warm shades: nothing so bland as magnolia, but more opulent than the...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 05/2023
BEETHOVEN Violin Sonatas (Weithaas)
Antje Weithaas and Dénes Várjon highlight the Kreutzer Sonata’s fantasia-like, improvisatory qualities. Thus, while Isabelle Faust plays the opening four-bar...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 07/2023
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