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Beethoven; Galuppi; Scarlatti Piano Sonatas
This DVD of an Italian television recital opens with the camera panning across a packed audience awaiting the sight and...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 2/2006
Beethoven Works for Flute
Auvidis Valois and the artists have scraped the bottom of the Beethoven barrel here, and it is not easy to...
Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 9/1993
Beethoven Symphonies Nos 3 & 4
David Zinman | Zurich Tonhalle Orchestra
David Zinman’s account of the Fourth Symphony is fleet and mercurial, as compelling a case as we have for honouring...
Reviewed in issue 2/1999
Beethoven String Quartets Nos 10 and 11
In discussing an earlier issue from the Cleveland Quartet's Telarc series, coupling the B flat, Op. 18 No. 6 and...
Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 10/1994
Beethoven Symphonies 4 & 8
André Previn | Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
There have been some tolerable things in Previn's Beethoven cycle but his evident care for the music is not enough...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 8/1990
Beethoven Symphonies Nos 1 & 6
(Nicolaus) Esterházy Sinfonia | Béla Drahos
I read somewhere recently that no record company was planning a new Beethoven cycle this side of the year 2000,...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 8/1996
Beethoven Violin Concerto; Bernstein Serenade for SoloViolin
Baltimore Symphony Orchestra | David Zinman | Hilary Hahn
At first glance, this would seem a pretty strange coupling, yet by trailing the most Olympian of classical violin concertos...
Reviewed in issue 3/1999
Beethoven Symphonies Nos. 1-9
Breadth, flexibility, wit and an all-pervading sense of musical line are among the many virtues that distinguish Peter Maag’s immensely...
Reviewed in issue 4/1999
Beethoven Violin Concertos
Anne-Sophie Mutter | Kurt Masur | New York Philharmonic Orchestra
Twenty or so years down the line and Anne-Sophie Mutter’s Beethoven Concerto has cast off its youthful serenity in favour...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 1/2002
Beethoven (The) Ruins of Athens
This would be more accurately entitled 'An Hour of Little-Known Beethoven including Two Minutes of Unknown Richard Strauss'. In 1924...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 5/2000
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