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Beethoven: String Quartets 7 & 9
I missed these performances first time round. The two Op. 59 Quartets are accommodated on the first disc in a...
Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 12/1990
Beethoven Symphony No.9
Naxos apologises in the booklet for moments of distortion in the finale (something you’re only likely to read – rather...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 2/2001
Beethoven Piano Concertos
Australian Chamber Orchestra | Stephen Kovacevich
This coupling of Concertos Nos. 2 and 3, which completes Stephen Kovacevich's Beethoven piano concerto cycle with the Australian Chamber...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 11/1992
Beethoven Orchestral Works
Carlo Maria Giulini | Milan La Scala Philharmonic Orchestra
This is Giulini's third recording of the Pastoral Symphony and it is, by some distance, the finest. Indeed, the whole...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 5/1994
Beethoven Symphonies Nos 2 and 6
Bernard Haitink | London Symphony Orchestra
Very much to my liking, this – the punchy, neatly packed sound; the way the timps thwack away at the...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 8/2006
Beethoven: String Quartets, Op.18
This is the first set to accommodate all six Op. 18 Quartets on two Compact Discs. Both of the rival...
Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 10/1987
Beethoven Piano Concertos Nos 1 & 2
London Classical Players | Melvyn Tan | Roger Norrington
Performances of Beethoven's first two piano concertos on a fortepiano with a small orchestra of period instruments require the listener...
Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 4/1989
Beethoven Symphony No. 6; Geschöpfe des Prometheus
Northern Sinfonia | Richard Hickox
There can be advantages in playing Classical symphonies with a smallish orchestra, but I was seldom aware of them here....
Reviewed in issue 9/1985
Beethoven Symphonies 4 & 7
Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment | Wladimir Jurowski
It seems strange for an English orchestra to be filmed on a visit to France. But how lucky the Parisians...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 10/2011
Mozart Così fan tutte
Other times, other styles. These two EMI performances are different in so many ways; the comparisons are fascinating and instructive....
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 11/1988
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