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Beethoven String Quartets Nos 8 and 9
A pair of forceful chords, then a rest, a typically twisting theme, another rest, the theme transposed—and we're launched on...
Reviewed in issue 2/1994
Beethoven Piano Sonatas Nos 8-11
There are performances that take you through a familiar work as though you were hearing it for the first time....
Reviewed by Stephen Johnson in issue: 9/1998
Beethoven Mass in C
Beethoven’s Mass in C, like Haydn’s late masterpieces and the Masses of Hummel, was written on commission from Prince Esterházy...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 12/2004
Schubert Die Schöne Müllerin
Frank la Forge | Frederic Schauwecker | Richard Crooks
This now becomes the first complete, or almost complete version of the cycle. Its history is curious. Recorded by Victor...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 5/1997
Beethoven Symphonies
Carlo Maria Giulini | Milan La Scala Philharmonic Orchestra
In an age when any recording of Beethoven's Fifth is little more than a blip on an accountant's screen, it...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 11/1995
Beethoven Complete Works for Solo Piano, Vol 1
No, this is not the same fortepiano – a copy of a 1795 Anton Walter – that Ronald Brautigam used...
Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 10/2005
Beethoven Symphonies
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra | Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra | Wilhelm Furtwängler
The most interesting of these three Furtwangler reissues comes on the new Novello Legend label with the coupling of a...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 4/1990
Beethoven String Quartets Nos 2, 11 and 16
Three works, reflecting different stages in Beethoven’s artistic life, form the first in a projected series of the string quartets...
Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 1/2006
Beethoven Piano Sonatas Nos 13-15
The insert-note stresses the new personal tone in these sonatas, and the importance of mood. Ranki's playing stresses clarity and...
Reviewed in issue 10/1990
Beethoven String Quartets 10 & 11
Continuing their Beethoven cycle, the Medici have now reached Opp. 74 and 95, a favourite coupling in the days of...
Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 9/1990
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