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Beethoven String Quartets 8 & 9
In Nimbus's familiar style this recording is generously supplied with ambience, and when the ambience is as pleasing as that...
Reviewed in issue 5/1990
Wartime Archives of German Radio
The initial point worth making about this instructive release is that the sound quality is extraordinarily good, with clearly ringing...
Reviewed in issue 3/1998
Beethoven Fidelio
This is decent, correct account of Fidelio, and that is not quite enough for a work that positively demands an...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 9/1985
Beethoven Symphonies 2 & 4
Günter Wand | North German Radio Symphony Orchestra
Reviewing Beethoven symphonies on record these days can be a dismal business. There are some fine reissues but many of...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 9/1989
Beethoven Symphony No. 9
Not to be confused with Weingartner's classic 1935 Columbia account with the Vienna Philharmonic and a distinguished team of soloists...
Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 2/1989
Ivan Moravec plays Beethoven, Volume 2
This issue of ‘named’ Beethoven sonatas provides an eloquent demonstration of Ivan Moravec’s fluent, passionate pianism. As Alena Nemcova points...
Reviewed in issue 1/1996
Beethoven Diabelli Variations
The 50-year-old Anatol Ugorski, one of the former Soviet Union's best regarded pianists, was also one of its last political...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 4/1992
Beethoven Violin Sonatas
Petr Messiereur | Stanislav Bogunia
Bright and bold playing here from this duo recorded in Metz, chief city of the Moselle region. Refreshing, too, though...
Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 3/1996
Beethoven Piano Sonatas Nos 5 - 8
There might be some received wisdom in these performances but its application is either intermittent or unconvincing. Peter Hewitt opts...
Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 2/2006
Beethoven Piano Concertos
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra | Daniel Barenboim
Daniel Barenboim's 1968 EMI recording of the five Beethoven piano concertos with Klemperer and the New Philharmonia is one of...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 12/1987
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