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Beethoven Piano Sonatas, Vol. 1
In his Piano Sonatas, Op. 2 Beethoven shows himself to be both fluent in the galant style, inherited from Haydn,...
Reviewed in issue 7/1993
Beethoven Symphonies Nos 5 & 7
Berlin State Opera Orchestra | Richard Strauss
Richard Strauss’s mastery as a Mozart interpreter has been widely recognised – by Karajan among others – but his Beethoven...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 11/2000
Beethoven Christ on the Mount of Olives
Christ on the Mount of Olives attracts a fairly steady trickle of recordings, most recently on Harmonia Mundi with Berlin...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 2/2005
Beethoven: Early String Quartets
While alternative versions abound on LP, the Alban Berg Quartet have the field to themselves in Op. 18 on CD....
Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 7/1985
Beethoven Piano Concertos Nos 1 & 5
Howard Shelley | Michael Roll | Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
What a fine cycle this has been, spirited and never less than innately musical. Easy on the pocket, too, lest...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 4/1998
Beethoven Choral Symphony
Of these two wartime performances of the Ninth Symphony, the 1942 Berlin version is greatly to be preferred. It has...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 5/1994
Beethoven Piano Concerto No 5, 'Emperor'; Piano Sonata No 28
Hélène Grimaud | Staatskapelle Dresden | Wladimir Jurowski
Subtitle this recording “A Tale of Two Emperors” or “Opposites Distract”. Listeners accustomed to lyrical nuance and tonal majesty in...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 11/2007
Beethoven Violin Concerto
Andrew Davis | Ian Brown | Min-Jin Kym | Philharmonia Orchestra
Performances of Beethoven’s Violin Concerto tend to fall into one of two interpretative camps, the reverential, or “Olympian”, and the...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 4/2008
Beethoven: Symphonies Nos 1-9
The Hanover Band were recording Beethoven symphonies with period instruments some time before the present vogue began; but in those...
Reviewed by Stephen Johnson in issue: 1/1989
Beethoven: Complete Symphonies
The bigger the record company, the greater its output of Beethoven cycles—a plausible generalization, though so far Decca and EMI...
Reviewed by Stephen Johnson in issue: 1/1989
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