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Beethoven Music for cello
Christophe Coin | Patrick Cohen
This second record in Christophe Coin's and Patrick Cohen's Beethoven series seems to me even more compelling than the first...
Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 9/1987
Liszt Piano Concertos
Kyrill Kondrashin | London Symphony Orchestra | Sviatoslav Richter
For all sorts of reasons Richter's London debut concerts in July 1961 were the sensation of the season - a...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 4/2000
Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 1 in C major Op 15; Bagatelles Op 126
Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie, Bremen | Piotr Anderszewski
Beethoven first made his name in Vienna after his arrival there in 1792 as an improvising pianist, a feared adversary...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 6/2008
Beethoven Cello Sonatas
Anthony Pleeth and Melvyn Tan recorded all five cello sonatas and three sets of variations on early instruments, on a...
Reviewed in issue 4/1992
Beethoven Piano Works
Trudelies Leonhardt's period-instrument Beethoven recital offers an unusual opportunity to examine the influence of instrumental specifications on musical style. The...
Reviewed in issue 2/1994
Beethoven String Quartets 2, 6 & 16
Robert Simpson believed that the Adagio cantabile of the G major Quartet was ‘the only really perfunctory movement in Op...
Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 2/2001
The Mengelberg Edition, Volume 11
(Royal) Concertgebouw Orchestra, Amsterdam | Guila Bustabo | Willem Mengelberg
American-born Guila Bustabo was an exceedingly passionate player and at least one of the recordings reissued here shows her at...
Reviewed in issue 3/1997
Beethoven: Piano Sonatas
Huseyin Sermet, about whom the Erato booklet gives no biographical information and whose only entry to date in The Classical...
Reviewed in issue 3/1991
Beethoven Symphonies 1 & 2
(Royal) Concertgebouw Orchestra, Amsterdam | Bernard Haitink
Reviewing the complete set, RO found Haitink's No. 2 ''curiously lack-lustre … the tempos often rather broad, the dramatic temperature...
Reviewed by Stephen Johnson in issue: 7/1989
Beethoven Piano Concertos 1 & 2
Boris Berezovsky | Swedish Chamber Orchestra | Thomas Dausgaard
This, the third CD in a projected cycle of the complete orchestral works of Beethoven is a dazzling and refreshing...
Reviewed in issue 7/2001
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