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Beethoven Piano Sonatas Nos 30; 31 & 32
After a brilliantly alert start to his Beethoven sonata cycle (3/03), Artur Pizarro’s second volume has one blowing more cold...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 13/2003
Beethoven Piano Concertos Nos 1 & 2
Olli Mustonen | Tapiola Sinfonietta
Under Olli Mustonen’s leadership from the piano, the Tapiola Sinfonietta play Beethoven’s first two concertos frighteningly well. String vibrato subscribes...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 10/2007
Beethoven Piano Works
Only a few months ago (''Quarterly Retrospect'', May) I was admiring Louis Lortie's remarkable pianism, fastidious sense of colour and...
Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 10/1990
Beethoven Symphony No. 3 and Fidelio Overture
Collectors who swear by their fine old 1950s mono LPs of the Beethoven symphonies made in the Concertgebouw under conductors...
Reviewed in issue 6/1995
Beethoven Piano Concertos Nos 2 & 4
Barry Douglas | Boris Berezovsky | Camerata Ireland | Swedish Chamber Orchestra | Thomas Dausgaard
Fresh from enjoying Yefim Bronfman’s lean and fluent account of Beethoven’s Fourth Concerto, I found myself more admiring than moved...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 2/2006
Beethoven Symphonies Nos 4 and 7
(Nicolaus) Esterházy Sinfonia | Béla Drahos
These are lean, swiftly paced, competently played performances, with all repeats observed. The Seventh Symphony comes off the better of...
Reviewed in issue 8/1997
Beethoven String Quartet; Grosse Fuge (orch arrs)
Nieuw Sinfonietta Amsterdam | Peter Oundjian
Whether you enjoy these performances is likely to depend on how you feel about Beethoven quartets played by a string...
Reviewed in issue 8/2002
Beethoven Violin concerto; Romances
Bournemouth Sinfonietta | Ronald Thomas
Ronald Thomas, as is his custom, is both conductor and soloist in these performances. He uses a modest-sized orchestra, so...
Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 9/1989
BEETHOVEN Complete Bagatelles
In this, the 10th volume of Ronald Brautigam’s complete solo Beethoven, he reaches the Bagatelles. In addition to the well-known...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: AW/2011
BEETHOVEN String Quartets 1-3, Quintet Op 29
Kuijken Quartet | Marleen Thiers
Surprise No 1: this is not, as you might initially assume, a period-instrument reading of Beethoven’s Rasumovskys. Surprise No 2:...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 09/2011
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