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Beethoven Piano Sonatas Nos 30 - 32
Imagine the highly inflected, pianistically oriented and sectionalised Beethoven-playing one often heard from Soviet artists such as Maria Grinberg, Maria...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 6/2011
Beethoven Bagatelles
The musical and expressive concentration of Beethoven’s Bagatelles – involving sudden and violent changes of mood – highlights the composer’s...
Reviewed in issue 11/1996
Arthur Grumiaux Early Recordings
Arthur Grumiaux | Riccardo Castagnone
The wistful artistry of Arthur Grumiaux serves chamber music handsomely, although fine versions of the Mozart, Beethoven and Berg concertos...
Reviewed in issue 11/1993
Beethoven Symphonies
(Royal) Concertgebouw Orchestra, Amsterdam | Bernard Haitink | Jeffrey Tate | Staatskapelle Dresden
Haitink's new performances of the Fifth and Seventh Symphonies are self-evidently distinguished. Vital and clear-sighted, paying court to no particular...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 10/1987
Musica da camera
This is an agreeably undemanding work for the listener, but far from undemanding for the violinist when such very fast...
Reviewed in issue 6/1985
Beethoven Emperor Concerto
André Previn | Emanuel Ax | Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
This is a decent, unexceptionable account of the Emperor, made interesting by the quality of the soloist, but not, perhaps,...
Reviewed by Stephen Plaistow in issue: 3/1987
Beethoven Symphony No 9, 'Choral'
Yet another assault on the superbudget marketplace‚ this time from RCA. Remastered using the latest 24bit technology and attractively presented...
Reviewed in issue 1/2002
Beethoven Violin Sonatas Nos.3 & 9 'Kreutzer'
Kristian Bezuidenhout | Viktoria Mullova
Kristian Bezuidenhout plays an 1822 Viennese instrument by Anton Walter and Sons, Viktoria Mullova’s Guadagnini is gut-strung. The sound, in...
Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 9/2010
Sviatoslav Richter in Concert
These performances were recorded—in front of by no means the quietest of audiences—in Paris during 1961, early days for Richter...
Reviewed in issue 5/1985
Beethoven Symphonies Nos 2 and 6
Philippe Herreweghe | Royal Flemish Philharmonic Orchestra
For Philippe Herreweghe, Beethoven’s metronome markings are sacrosanct even when the composer appears to contradict himself in the first movement...
Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 13/2009
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