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BEETHOVEN Violin Concerto Op 61. Symphony No 7
Alexandre da Costa | Johannes Wildner | Taipei Symphony Orchestra
With such an oft-recorded work as the Beethoven Violin Concerto it’s understandable that performers will search for a new angle....
Reviewed by Duncan Druce in issue: 01/2014
BEETHOVEN Complete Piano Sonatas
Daishin Kashimoto | Konstantin Lifschitz
Beethoven composed these works as ‘Sonatas for pianoforte and violin’. The common designation, ‘violin sonatas’, is acceptable, I suppose, but...
Reviewed by Duncan Druce in issue: 02/2014
SCHUBERT Arpeggione Sonata DEBUSSY Sonata for Cello and Piano
Frank Braley | Gautier Capuçon
Frank Braley has not always received unconditionally good reviews as an accompanist – his big sound and strong musical personality...
Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 02/2014
Beethoven String Quartets Op. 18, Nos 1-3
Lindsay Qt | Lindsay Quartet | Louise Williams
It’s wonderful how the Lindsays, after a career of more than 30 years, can still sound so fresh and spontaneous....
Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 4/2001
8 Famous Viennese String Quartets
This box brings together discs, recorded between 1992 and 1995, that have already been issued separately. Eight masterpieces, only needing...
Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 3/1999
Beethoven Complete Piano Sonatas
With this nine-CD box, Louis Lortie completes his cycle of Beethoven’s 32 sonatas, adding an inspired eight sonatas to those...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 1/2011
Beethoven Violin Sonatas 5 & 7
Ralph Holmes | Richard Burnett
Recordings of Beethoven's piano sonatas on instruments of his own day are common enough, but the current UK catalogue lists...
Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 9/1983
Beethoven Symphony No. 9
The new Naxos Ninth has a number of virtues. The orchestral playing under Bela Drahos is stylish and quick on...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 10/1997
Beethoven String Quartets, Opp 132 and 135
This fifth volume in the Borodins’ Beethoven series is one of the best. It shows all the virtues of the...
Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 8/2005
Spectrum
Benjamin Beilman | Yekwon Sunwoo
Less may be more but more is even better – or so Benjamin Beilman seems to think. This 26-year-old American...
Reviewed by Hannah Nepil in issue: 06/2016
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