Beethoven overtures

Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra | Václav Neumann

Some beautiful playing here, especially from the woodwind (there's a truly delightful flute solo at the beginning of the recapitulation...

Reviewed by Stephen Plaistow in issue: 9/1987

Beethoven String Quartets; Grosse Fuge, Op 133

Suske Quartet

The Suske Quartet were formed in 1965 by the principals of the Berlin Staatskapelle. They played together until 1980, when...

Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 1/1997

Beethoven Piano Concertos Nos 4 & 5

Till Fellner, always among the more quietly celebrated pianists, includes Alfred Brendel among his mentors and together with Kent Nagano...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 6/2010

Beethoven Symphony No. 3

Frans Brüggen | Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century

A Bruggen performance is always a special event, and this is no exception. The account of the Marche funebre will...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 11/1988

Beethoven Cantatas

Corydon Orchestra | Corydon Singers | Janice Watson | Jean Rigby | John Mark Ainsley | José Van Dam | Judith Howarth | Matthew Best

Beethoven was only 19 when in Bonn he was commissioned to write this 40-minute cantata on the Emperor’s death. It...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 4/1997

Mozart Divertimento K563; Schubert Trio D471

Antoine Tamestit | Christian Poltéra | Frank Peter Zimmermann

To divert audiences or to deflect them? The last four movements of K563 may be thought largely diverting, thus fitting...

Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 4/2011

Romantic Strings

Emanuel Krasovsky | Vera Vaidman

This outstanding recital serves to introduce a remarkable new Russian/Israeli violinist, of whom I am sure we shall hear much...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 6/1990

Beethoven Symphony No. 6

Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra | Wilhelm Furtwängler

Furtwangler's way with the Pastoral may be quite a shock to anyone used to present-day performances. Its sound, to begin...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 7/1985

Beethoven Complete Piano Trios, Vol 1

Florestan Trio

Here’s a recording that immediately, from the first, impetuous bars of Op 70 No 1, feels just right. In this...

Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 3/2003

Beethoven String Quartets Opp 95, 131 & 133

Borodin Quartet

The late quartets must form a crucial part of any complete recording of the Beethoven quartets, so this third disc...

Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 2/2005