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BEETHOVEN Missa Solemnis
Listeners initially disconcerted by the smooth legato of the Kyrie’s opening statements may be reassured: this is not one of...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 06/2017
BEETHOVEN Complete Symphonies (Blomstedt)
When imported to the UK late in 1981, Herbert Blomstedt’s first Beethoven cycle gained further appeal through the inclusion of miniature...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: AW17
BEETHOVEN Violin Concerto. Triple Concerto
Beethoven’s Violin Concerto is a festive work for the Christmas season, argues Thomas Albertus Irnberger in an extensive booklet note....
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: AW17
ULLMANN Piano Concerto Op 25 BEETHOVEN Piano Concerto No 3
Herbert Schuch | Olari Elts | WDR Symphony Orchestra
An award-winning Romanian-born pianist, a promising Estonian conductor and a distinguished German ensemble come together to offer a coupling which...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 05/2013
BEETHOVEN Piano Trios Op 70/2; Op 97
There has been something of a flurry of Beethoven piano trios coming my way over the past couple of months....
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 10/2012
BEETHOVEN Piano Concerto No 5. Symphony No 5
Myung-Whun Chung | Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra | Sunwook Kim
Is it me or are Beethoven pianists getting younger? This month I’ve had the pleasure of encountering not only Igor...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 11/2013
BEETHOVEN Piano Sonatas Nos 4, 9, 10 & 11
In Beethoven’s Op 7 Sonata, Maurizio Pollini pounces on the composer’s Allegro molto e con brio directive with joyful momentum....
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 12/2013
BEETHOVEN Piano Sonatas Vol 5
Volume 5 of five two-CD sets completes Christian Leotta’s cycle of Beethoven’s 32 piano sonatas. He will shortly have played...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 04/2014
CHERUBINI Symphony BEETHOVEN Leonore Overture
Bertrand de Billy | Lausanne Chamber Orchestra | Maria Bengtsson
The genre of rescue opera runs as a subtextual thread through this intriguing programme, a welcome throwback to more exploratory...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 10/2014
BEETHOVEN Piano Trios Nos 1 & 7
Instruments are carefully balanced, sound is good. But this recording, originally in SACD format, would audibly have been a lot...
Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 04/2015
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