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Beethoven Piano Sonatas
Barry Douglas | Vladimir Feltsman
Ambitiously, Barry Douglas tackled the Hammerklavier in his first offering for RCA as a Beethoven pianist (6/88), and here he...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 6/1994
Beethoven Symphonies Nos 6 & 8
Klaus Tennstedt | London Philharmonic Orchestra
''It would be a dullard indeed who could listen to Tennstedt's... account of the opening movement of the Pastoral Symphony...
Reviewed by Stephen Johnson in issue: 1/1987
Beethoven Complete Violin Sonatas
Marc Neikrug | Pinchas Zukerman
I have enjoyed the discs which have so far come my way of Zukerman and Neikrug's ongoing series of Mozart's...
Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 7/1992
Beethoven String Quartets Opp 127 and 132
This has been a good year for late Beethoven quartets. After the fine-sounding Borodin Quartet and the powerful, polished performances...
Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 13/2005
Beethoven Symphonies
Mikhail Pletnev’s desire to remake Beethoven for the modern age is understandable. You don’t have to share his deep dislike...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 11/2007
Beethoven Symphonies Nos 7 & 8
Frans Brüggen | Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century
The close but contrasted relationship between these two symphonies makes it a most desirable coupling; yet as one surveys the...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 2/1991
Haydn, M; Mozart Violin Concertos
Baiba Skride | CPE Bach Chamber Orchestra | Hartmut Haenchen
As on her debut disc of Bach, Bartók and Ysaÿe, the young Latvian violinist Baiba Skride here avoids the obvious...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 3/2006
Beethoven Chamber Works
The eternal popularity of Beethoven's Septet makes it one of the most frequently recorded chamber works: its fluency of invention...
Reviewed in issue 12/1995
Beethoven 32 Variations; Piano Sonatas Nos 1, 26 & 32
Pianist Miki Skuta’s innate musicality and feeling for nuance attracted me to his superb 2004 recording of Bach’s Goldberg Variations....
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 1/2009
Beethoven Songs from the British Isles
One does not usually fancy that it would be seemly or even thinkable to nod to Beethoven in the street,...
Reviewed in issue 12/1995
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