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Beethoven Rasumovsky Quartets Op 59, Nos 1-3
Playing on the celebrated set of Strads collected by Paganini and previously used by the Cleveland Quartet, the Tokyo produce...
Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 2/2006
BEETHOVEN Piano Sonata No 32 LIGETI Etudes Books 1 & 2
Among younger piano personalities breaking through the international scene, Jeremy Denk has garnered attention for ambitious recital programmes juxtaposing Ives’s...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 08/2012
BEETHOVEN Piano Concertos Nos 1 - 5
Rudolf Buchbinder | Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
I wonder if directing the Beethoven piano concertos from the keyboard is going to become a new orthodoxy? I hope...
Reviewed by Stephen Plaistow in issue: 06/2012
Clifford Curzon - Recital
When Sir Clifford Curzon was always so reluctant to work in the recording studio‚ and then often rejected the results‚...
Reviewed in issue 5/2002
BEETHOVEN Symphony No 7. Wellington's Victory
Martin Haselböck | Vienna Academy Orchestra
Here is a fascinating journey back in time: as close a recreation as we can probably get, two centuries later,...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 03/2016
BEETHOVEN Piano Concertos Nos 1 & 2
Hannes Minnaar | Jan Willem de Vriend | Netherlands Symphony Orchestra
I much enjoyed the first instalment of Beethoven’s piano concertos with this all-Dutch line-up, which boldly began with the Fourth...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 05/2016
BEETHOVEN Diabelli Variations
The ups and downs characterising Christian Leotta’s recent Beethoven sonata cycle spill over into his Diabelli Variations, which has a...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 09/2016
BEETHOVEN Egmont (Häkkinen)
Aapo Häkkinen | Elisabeth Breuer | Helsinki Baroque Orchestra | Robert Hunger-Bühler
Beethoven wrote the incidental music to Egmont while in the process of transforming Leonore (1805 06) into Fidelio (1814) and...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: AW2019
BEETHOVEN Piano Trios (ATOS Trio)
Coincidentally, just prior to hearing these two double-packs, I’d received a reissue from First Hand Records of the First and...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 01/2020
BEETHOVEN Symphonies Nos 5 & 6 (Haselböck); 5 & 7 (Manze)
For the final instalment of the ‘Resound Beethoven’ series, recorded in Viennese venues that survive from the composer’s day, Martin...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 03/2020
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