BEETHOVEN A Chronological Odyssey (Cyprien Katsaris)

A column in the March 2020 issue of Gramophone’s stable companion International Piano quoted a whopping 709 different recordings already...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 07/2020

BEETHOVEN Secular Vocal Works (Ensemble Tamanial)

A cappella quartets and quintets generally belong to the world of Byrd and the barbershop. Mozart’s vocal canons are like...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 09/2020

BEETHOVEN Piano Concerto No 4. Symphony No 7 (Lahav Shani)

Lahav Shani | Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra

Multitalented pianist, conductor and former Israel Philharmonic double-bass player Lahav Shani was just 29 when it was announced in the...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 01/2021

BEETHOVEN Symphonies 4-6 BARRY Conquest of Ireland (Adès)

Britten Sinfonia | Joshua Bloom | Lawrence Power | Thomas Adès

I found Thomas Adès and the Britten Sinfonia’s interpretations in the first volume of their Beethoven cycle (7/20)unrelentingly hard-driven, so...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 02/2021

BEETHOVEN Symphony No 7. The Creatures of Prometheus (von der Goltz)

Freiburg Baroque Orchestra | Gottfried von der Goltz

Right from the generously spread opening chord, this is a Seventh with its roots in the 18th century, evoking a...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 05/2021

BEETHOVEN The Symphonies (Nézet-Séguin)

Chamber Orchestra of Europe | Ekaterina Gubanova | Florian Boesch | Siobhan Stagg | Werner Güra | Yannick Nézet-Séguin

Keen listeners to the Mozart/da Ponte, Schumann and Mendelssohn cycles from Nézet-Séguin and the COE will find much to enjoy...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 09/2022

Vadym Kholodenko: The People United Will Never Be Defeated!

Vadym Kholodenko

Beethoven’s early Variations on a Russian Dance from the ballet Das Waldmädchen by Wranitzky has rarely been played better. Vadym...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 01/2023

BEETHOVEN Triple Concerto (Haitink; Equilbey)

Accentus Ensemble | Alexandra Conunova | Anaïck Morel | Bernard Haitink | Bertrand Chamayou | David Kadouch | Florian Sempey | Gordan Nikolitch | Insula Orchestra | Lars Vogt

This new LSO Live disc brings together two of Bernard Haitink’s previously released recordings, presumably in honour of the conductor’s...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 05/2019

BEETHOVEN Piano Concertos Nos 1 & 2 (Igor Levit; Xiaohan Wang)

Cologne Chamber Orchestra | Helmut Müller-Brühl | Igor Levit | Xiaohan Wang

In 2007 Naxos issued a set of live performances of all five Beethoven piano concertos stemming from that year’s Bonn...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 06/2021

BEETHOVEN The Violin Sonatas Vol 3 (Frank Peter Zimmermann)

Frank Peter Zimmermann | Martin Helmchen

The first edition of Beethoven’s Kreutzer Sonata described it as ‘scritta in un stilo molto concertante’, and the problem for...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 11/2021