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BEETHOVEN Missa Solemnis (Harnoncourt)
This is a remarkable account of Beethoven’s Missa solemnis and, in one important respect, an unusual one. For though it...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 08/2016
BEETHOVEN Egmont Incidental Music. The Consecration of the House
Herbert Föttinger | John Malkovich | Martin Haselböck | Vienna Academy Orchestra
It is something of an irony that Goethe conceived his five-act prose tragedy Egmont to include music but provided none,...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 09/2016
DEAN Shadow Music
Magnus Sköld | Swedish Chamber Orchestra
This superb new release in BIS’s series devoted to Brett Dean takes its name of the longest piece in the...
Reviewed in issue AW16
BEETHOVEN Complete Cello Sonatas and Variations
Christopher O'Riley | Matt Haimovitz
Cellist Matt Haimovitz prefaces his period-instrument Beethoven cycle with an absorbing essay, writing that ‘the consideration is no longer the...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 04/2015
BEETHOVEN Diabelli Variations
First the positives. In Beethoven’s Diabelli Variations, Nick Van Bloss’s supple precision brings out the shifting accents of Var 2’s...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 08/2015
BEETHOVEN Eroica Variations. Piano Sonatas Nos 8 & 23
Beethoven introduces his Eroica Variations with the theme’s bare-boned architectural essence. Konstantin Scherbakov, however, can’t help but embellish the foundation...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: AW2015
The Sea - Songs by Debussy, Fauré & Schubert
Rarely do you hear, even in the rarefied world of French mélodie and German Lieder, a baritone who sings with...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 02/2013
BEETHOVEN Diabelli Variations, Op 120
Behold Paul Lewis, a sensitive, cultured and relatively young pianist, determined to thoroughly plot out Beethoven’s Diabelli Variations with methodical,...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 8/2011
Beethoven; Shostakovich String Quartets
While the composer himself was reluctant to break faith with the technically less proficient Beethoven Quartet, concert-goers and record buyers...
Reviewed in issue 06/2012
BEETHOVEN Piano Sonatas Vol 1
Freedom towards rhythm, passagework impulsively incautious, insight into music streaming through a unique combination of intellectual and emotional responses, and...
Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 08/2012
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