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Hans Hotter
In January, Hans Hotter celebrated his 94th birthday. Just 30 years before, Hotter returned to London to give what was...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 4/2003
Bruckner Symphony No 7
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra | Herbert von Karajan | Karl Böhm | Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
Three years have elapsed since Decca reissued these two Bohm recordings in their mid-price Ovation series (3/93). Now you can...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 3/1996
SCHUMANN Myrthen (Christian Gerhaher)
Camilla Tilling | Christian Gerhaher | Gerold Huber
For the second volume of their Schumann project, Christian Gerhaher and Gerold Huber turn to Myrthen, the wonderful wedding present...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 12/2019
Beethoven String Quartets
These are the remarkable Rasumovskys of 1984: recorded when the Lindsays had just founded their own chamber music festival and...
Reviewed by hfinch in issue: 4/1995
Beethoven String Quartets, Vol. 4
Two new sets, the New Budapest Quartet on Hyperion and the Prazak on Nuova Era, are underway to challenge the...
Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 10/1991
Beethoven Orchestral Works
Australian Chamber Orchestra | Stephen Kovacevich
There is rather more to be said in favour of this disc than its unrecommendable predecessor in the series—reviewed in...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 3/1992
Christopher Maltman - Song Recital
Christopher Maltman | Julius Drake
Another winner for the Wigmore. It’s a very satisfying programme, for a start, beginning in profundity and ending with a...
Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 1/2008
Beethoven Septet, Op. 20; Piano Trio 4
In the Septet Beethoven is at his most genial, his muse in full flow untinged by problems or worries. the...
Reviewed in issue 5/1986
Beethoven Edition, Vol.13 - Late Quartets
The long-disbanded LaSalle Quartet are nowadays celebrated primarily for their compelling recorded interpretations of twentieth-century music and these performances are...
Reviewed in issue 13/1997
Beethoven Symphonies 1 & 3
Jaap Schröder | Smithsonian Chamber Orchestra
Beethoven's little joke about Bach being no Bach (no ''stream'') but the ocean itself could equally well be applied to...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 9/1989
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