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BEETHOVEN Piano Sonatas Nos 15, 16 & 21
Jonathan Biss begins the third volume of his Beethoven cycle with an animated and beautifully inflected account of the Pastoral...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 03/2014
BRAHMS. SCHUBERT Lieder
I hadn’t come across these singers before: they are quite wonderful. Much is explained by the reference in the booklet...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 02/2012
Barry Douglas plays Beethoven
Not for Barry Douglas any of those eccentricities that for some of his young contemporaries pass as 'new light'. This...
Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 6/1988
Beethoven Piano Sonatas Nos 16-18, Op 31 Nos 1-3
Paul Lewis launches his cycle of the 32 Beethoven sonatas with a triptych of richly varied middle-period masterpieces. A more...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 13/2005
BEETHOVEN Symphony No 2 DEAN Testament (Jurowski)
Bayerisches Staatsorchester | Vladimir Jurowski
In Vladimir Jurowski’s hands, the first movement of Beethoven’s Symphony No 2 is a study in contrasts. He paces the...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 10/2022
BEETHOVEN Symphonies Nos 1, 2 & 7 (Manacorda)
Antonello Manacorda | Potsdam Chamber Academy
Antonello Manacorda describes the Kammerakademie Potsdam’s approach to Beethoven as a ‘merger’ between the worlds of modern instruments and period...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 02/2023
BEETHOVEN Symphonies Nos 4 & 5; 6 & 8 (Noseda)
Gianandrea Noseda | National Symphony Orchestra, Kennedy Center
I found the first volume of Gianandrea Noseda and the National Symphony Orchestra of Washington DC’s Beethoven symphony cycle (11/22)...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 12/2023
BEETHOVEN String Quartets Vol 1 (Doric String Quartet)
The Doric are perhaps the foremost British string quartet at the moment, so their turn to Beethoven in their 25th-anniversary...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 01/2024
BEETHOVEN The Early Quartets (Calidore Quartet)
My usual policy of never reading booklet notes before I write about an album under consideration paid off handsomely in...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 02/2025
Beethoven Syms 1-9
The first thing to be said about this set is that it sounds a good deal more comfortable than the...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 2/2001
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