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BEETHOVEN Piano Sonatas Nos 16-18, 24-27
Paavali Jumppanen’s Beethoven cycle gets better with each new instalment and nearly everything here is a keeper. He obviously adores...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 06/2016
BEETHOVEN Violin Sonatas Nos 2, 4 & 9
A note in the booklet by these Belgian artists – still in their twenties – says that their duo partnership...
Reviewed by Stephen Plaistow in issue: 09/2016
BEETHOVEN Piano Sonatas Op 14 Nos 1 & 2; Op 22; Op 26
With the fourth volume of his Beethoven sonatas, Martin Roscoe reaches some of the more unsung works (if that description...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 10/2013
BEETHOVEN Violin Sonatas Nos 1, 5 & 8 (Tamsin Waley-Cohen)
Huw Watkins | Tamsin Waley-Cohen
These are closely miked studio accounts, with little sense of the 300-seat Snape Maltings acoustic in which they were recorded,...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 08/2020
BEETHOVEN Symphony No 9. Choral Fantasy (Heras-Casado)
While marginally beefed up from their recent recording of the Emperor Concerto (3/20), the Freiburg Barockorchester field a string section...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 09/2020
BEETHOVEN Complete Violin Sonatas (Jerilyn Jorgensen)
Cullan Bryant | Jerilyn Jorgensen
Numerous recordings of Beethoven’s complete sonatas for piano and violin are available in performances from the first half of the...
Reviewed by Donald Rosenberg in issue: 01/2021
BEETHOVEN Piano Concerto No 5. Choral Fantasy
Leif Ove Andsnes | Mahler Chamber Orchestra | Prague Philharmonic Choir
To have arrived so soon at the end of this journey seems almost a pity, for the company has been...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: AW2014
BEETHOVEN Complete Works for Cello and Piano
Alexander Melnikov | Jean-Guihen Queyras
Jean-Guihen Queyras isn’t the first cellist to record the Beethoven cello works with sparing use of vibrato but few of...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 11/2014
BEETHOVEN Symphonies Nos 2, 4 & 7. Overtures
Bonn Beethoven Orchestra | Stefan Blunier
I’ve always thought of Beethoven’s Second as the first stage on his revolutionary symphonic journey, as much a leap forwards...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 04/2017
BEETHOVEN Violin Sonatas Nos 4, 5 & 7 (Viktoria Mullova)
Alasdair Beatson | Viktoria Mullova
It’s a mere decade since Viktoria Mullova’s last recorded foray into Beethoven’s violin sonatas (9/10). Then her co-conspirator was Kristian...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 06/2021
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