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Beethoven String Quartets, Vol.3
With this third disc, the New Budapest Quartet complete their set of Op. 18 and move on to the first...
Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 5/1991
BEETHOVEN Violin Concerto. Kreutzer Sonata (Nemanja Radulović)
Double Sens | Nemanja Radulovic
Nemanja Radulović takes complete control of every aspect of Beethoven’s Violin Concerto, playing the solo part while leading his own...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 01/2024
(The) Romantic Fortepiano
The piano used here is a Conrad Graf made in Vienna in 1826, and Richard Burnett's programme is at least...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 6/1988
Beethoven Piano Concertos
(Royal) Concertgebouw Orchestra, Amsterdam | Kurt Sanderling | Mitsuko Uchida
Mitsuko Uchida’s recordings continue to win golden opinions on first appearance; and thereafter, which is always the sterner test. It...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 5/1996
Beethoven Piano Pieces, Vol 1
Many of Beethoven's shorter piano works, including some that are among his earliest pieces, hover at the fringes of his...
Reviewed by Tim Parry in issue: 1/2000
Beethoven String Quartets, Vol 6: Op. 18, Nos 1-6
This completes the Borodin Beethoven cycle – the previous five volumes consist of single CDs. It has proved to be...
Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 6/2006
Beethoven String Quartets, Vol 3
The second finale that Beethoven was persuaded to produce is not a part of the complete performance. It is appended...
Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 1/2007
BEETHOVEN 32 Variations. Piano Sonatas Nos 19 & 20
This disc features a Christopher Clarke instrument (modelled on a Fritz piano from Vienna, c1818), whose well-regulated action and varied...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 10/2015
BEETHOVEN Symphony No 9 (Weil)
Bruno Weil | Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra | Tafelmusik Chamber Choir
Bruno Weil’s initial basic tempo, held with conviction but not rigidity through the first movement’s vicissitudes, is crotchet=78: much less...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 01/2017
BEETHOVEN Piano Concertos Nos 1 & 2
Osmo Vänskä | Tapiola Sinfonietta | Yevgeny Sudbin
Let me lay out information first of all: this is the conclusion of Yevgeny Sudbin’s cycle of the five Beethoven...
Reviewed by Stephen Plaistow in issue: 05/2017
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