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BEETHOVEN The Complete String Quartets, Vol 2
Not for the Belcea Quartet is Op 18 No 5 meant to echo the spirit of Mozart as it does...
Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 08/2013
BEETHOVEN Piano Concertos 1-5 (Complete)
Berlin German Symphony Orchestra | Johannes Moser | Kent Nagano | Kolja Blacher | Mari Kodama
On the evidence of this set, the husband-and-wife team of Mari Kodama and Kent Nagano enjoy a keen musical rapport....
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 04/2015
BEETHOVEN Lieder and Bagatelles
Christoph Berner | Werner Güra
Interlacing a selection of (mainly) popular Lieder with piano miniatures, Werner Güra and Christoph Berner here create the Beethovenian answer...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: AW2015
BEETHOVEN Piano Sonatas Nos 8, 21 and 32
Following a cautious all-Schumann debut (3/15), Boris Giltburg’s second Naxos release, devoted to three Beethoven sonatas, finds the 2013 Queen...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 10/2015
BEETHOVEN String Trios Op. 9 Nos 1 - 3
Music on a small scale? Not as Beethoven conceived these Op 9 Trios. Robert Simpson found it a ‘miracle’ that...
Reviewed in issue 03/2012
BEETHOVEN Symphony No 9
Res severa gaudium (‘pleasure is a serious business’), the proscenium of the Gewandhaus stage sternly enjoins us; and, after the...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: AW/2012
BEETHOVEN Complete Piano Sonatas Vol 1
When it comes to Beethoven’s complete survey of piano sonatas on disc, EMI appears to take risks. After all, they...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 05/2012
BEETHOVEN Piano Sonatas Vol 2
The second volume of Jonathan Biss’s Beethoven cycle for Onyx begins with the Op 7 Sonata, where the first movement...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 04/2013
CHOPIN Cello Sonata SCHUBERT Arpeggione (Isserlis)
Dénes Várjon | Steven Isserlis
Can it really be 10 years since Steven Isserlis and Dénes Várjon proved a wonderfully innate partnership with their disc...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 10/2018
BEETHOVEN Piano Sonatas Nos 31 & 32 (Sudbin)
Yevgeny Sudbin is not an artist to go into the studio lightly and it’s a bold move to choose as...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 04/2019
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