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BEETHOVEN Piano Sonatas Nos 14, 17 & 23 (Nikolai Lugansky)
This is the second volume of Nikolai Lugansky’s Beethoven to have come my way and the ruggedness that coloured his...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 05/2022
BEETHOVEN Piano Sonatas Opp 14/2, 27/2; Bagatelles Op 33 (Kolesnikov)
Pavel Kolesnikov is an artist who likes to surprise and to delve into the more forgotten corners of the repertoire:...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: AW18
Poème Mystique: Strauss, Bloch, Schubert, Faurè
Korean-American violinist Danbi Um’s second album for Avie offers an unusual pairing of sonatas by Richard Strauss and Ernest Bloch,...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 03/2025
Beethoven String Quartets, Vol.6
The Orford is Canada's leading string quartet and has been on the scene since the 1970s. They are a highly...
Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 8/1994
Beethoven Symphony no 3 etc
Leonard Bernstein | Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
Edward Greenfield writing of the LP versions of these recordings seems to share my own hesitancy both about the virtues...
Reviewed in issue 4/1985
Beethoven Orchestral Works
Günter Wand | North German Radio Symphony Orchestra
After all the gloomy, nostalgic remarks we've been reading in the correspondence pages recently, it's more than a pleasure to...
Reviewed by Stephen Johnson in issue: 10/1991
BEETHOVEN Complete Works for Fortepiano and Cello
France Springuel | Jan Vermeulen
We’ve had Beethoven’s complete music for cello and piano on period instruments before – notably from Pieter Wispelwey and Paul...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: AW2014
BEETHOVEN Violin Concerto. Romances
Benjamin Levy | Lorenzo Gatto | Orchestre de Chambre Pelléas
Lorenzo Gatto is well equipped to play the Beethoven Concerto. His clear, ringing tone, coupled with an ability to play...
Reviewed by Duncan Druce in issue: 03/2015
KURPINSKI The Battle of Mozhaysk BEETHOVEN Symphony No 3
Frans Brüggen | Orchestra of the 18th Century
Two exceptional recordings taped eight years apart, both live: the Eroica at the Warsaw Philharmonic Concert Hall in September 2005,...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 03/2015
BEETHOVEN Symphonies Nos 4 & 7
Nicholas McGegan | Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra
It has long struck me that Beethoven’s Fourth and Seventh Symphonies make an ideal coupling. Though they cross the traditional...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 08/2013
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