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Beethoven Symphonies
London Symphony Orchestra | Wyn Morris
Gone are the days when collectors could go out and buy Toscanini's RCA LP of these two symphonies, a difficult...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 2/1990
Beethoven Piano Sonatas Nos 17, 24 & 30; Bagatelles, Op 126
Following the success of his suitably intense Scriabin disc, 23-year-old Andrei Korobeinikov now turns to an enterprisingly chosen recital of...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 2/2010
Beethoven String Trios Vol. II
Having devoted their first volume to the three string trios of Op. 9 ( DKPCD9042, 9/87) the Cummings Trio now...
Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 6/1988
Mozart Piano Quartet; Schubert Piano Quintet, 'Trout'
Yefim Bronfman | Zukerman Chamber Players
Not just a piano virtuoso of steely right-hand brilliance, Yefim Bronfman also uses his left hand – to accentuate bass-lines...
Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 9/2008
Wilhelm Kempff plays Beethoven
There is very little film available of Kempff and to see him playing the composer with whom he was most...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 13/2004
Beethoven Choral Symphony
Wolfgang Sawallisch carries a heavy burden of responsibility these days as an ageing generation of music-loving oldies looks around, with...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 1/1994
Beethoven Piano Concertos
Howard Shelley | Michael Roll | Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Michael Roll once jokingly remarked that Jorge Bolet did not really get going till he was 60, a reference to...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 1/1997
Beethoven String Quartets
As the note puts it, ''the Borodin Quartet is not four different instruments, it is one instrument with sixteen strings''....
Reviewed in issue 6/1989
Beethoven Complete Works for Solo Piano, Vol 6
Volume 6 in Ronald Brautigam’s Beethoven cycle offers stunning performances that are technically breathtaking, stylistically astute, emotionally intense and musically...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 12/2008
Beethoven: Piano Sonatas
Gerhard Oppitz sets out his stall in the very first bar of the Pathetique. We are clearly in for a...
Reviewed in issue 12/1989
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