Beethoven Choral Symphony

Benjamin Zander | Boston Philharmonic Orchestra | Boston Pro Musica Chorus | Brad Creswell | D'Anna Fortunato | David Arnold | Dominique Labelle

Marketing by manifesto is a technique that has been successfully pioneered in recent years both by musicians and record companies....

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 9/1992

Kempff: Beethoven - The Complete Wartime Piano Sonata Recordings

Beethoven’s piano sonatas occupied Wilhelm Kempff throughout his long recording career. In addition to his two familiar mono and stereo...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 11/2017

BEETHOVEN Piano Concertos Nos 2 & 4 (Vogt)

Lars Vogt | Royal Northern Sinfonia

Lars Vogt would seem to have kept the best until last in this series of Beethoven concerto recordings with the...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 05/2018

BEETHOVEN Piano Sonatas Nos 5, 6, 7 & 10 (James Brawn)

James Brawn

As his Beethoven sonata cycle progresses, James Brawn’s lean, dry-point style seems more comfortable in its own skin, with less...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 06/2018

BRAHMS; SCHUBERT The Complete Duos / Coda

Paolo Giacometti | Pieter Wispelwey

Pieter Wispelwey’s multi-album mission to record all of Brahms’s and Schubert’s duos – not just the ones for cello –...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 11/2019

BEETHOVEN Pathétique, Funèbre, Clair de Lune & Appassionata

Michel Dalberto

Michel Dalberto’s Beethoven has mellowed since his sparkling early-1980s recordings of the Op 2 and Op 10 trilogies. The music’s...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 11/2019

BEETHOVEN Violin Concerto. Septet (Leonidas Kavakos)

Enrico Pace | Leonidas Kavakos | Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks

These recordings of Beethoven’s Violin Concerto and Septet were made in 2019 during Leonidas Kavakos’s tenure as artist-in-residence with the...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 01/2020

BEETHOVEN Complete works for Piano & Cello (Ori & Omri Epstein)

Omri Epstein | Ori Epstein

Does any body of work by a great composer look more unassuming (superficially, at least) and yet yield more riches...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 01/2020

BEETHOVEN Symphony No 6 (Forck)

Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin | Bernhard Forck

Justin Heinrich Knecht’s five-movement Portrait musical de la Nature, ou Grande Simphonie (1783) begins with an evocation of Arcadian bliss...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 04/2020

BEETHOVEN Fidelio

Aage Haugland | Eva Marton | Horst Hiestermann | James King | Kurt Rydl | Lillian Watson | Theo Adam | Thomas Moser | Tom Krause | Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra

The booklet essay for Orfeo’s latest Salzburg Festival excavation is entitled ‘Fidelio – an opera for conductors’. This historic broadcast...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 04/2016