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Beethoven: Orchestral works
Philharmonia Orchestra | Vladimir Ashkenazy
In the long slow introduction to this symphony one is more than usually aware of the benefits of CD in...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 11/1984
Beethoven Piano Sonatas Nos 8, 14 & 21
After an alarmingly long delay Naxos’s “Great Pianists – Mosieiwitch” continues with Vol 9. So here, thankfully, is an incomparable...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 13/2006
Beethoven Der Geschöpfe des Prometheus
Frans Brüggen | Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century
If only Beethoven had not used an Italian title for his Third Symphony, there might be a wider understanding of...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 12/1996
Cherubini Requiem; Marche funèbre
Boston Baroque | Martin Pearlman
Suitably enough, Cherubini's C minor Requiem is here preceded by the too little-known Elegischer Gesang by one of his greatest...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 2/2007
Beethoven Symphony No 3; Egmont - Overture
Saito Kinen Orchestra | Seiji Ozawa
This is an Eroica of special pedigree. Under Seiji Ozawa’s mannerly direction, the work flowers and grows as a thing...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 3/1999
Beethoven Symphony No 3
(Royal) Concertgebouw Orchestra, Amsterdam | Bernard Haitink
Re-hearing Haitink's latest account of the Eroica does not tempt me to jettison my impression that this is a cultured,...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 3/1989
Beethoven Piano sonatas
Faultless pianism. Every note and chord is perfectly weighted, every dynamic is meticulously observed, pedalling is clean and tone never...
Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 3/2004
Romantic Guitar Quartets
When guitarists turn their performing attention to such things as Pictures at an Exhibition and the New World Symphony I...
Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 10/1990
Beethoven Symphony 6
Philharmonia Orchestra | Vladimir Ashkenazy
Amiable and easygoing and totally unmannered in style, this happy performance has the blessing of the finest, most glowing recorded...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 5/1983
Beethoven Septet Op 20. Sextet Op 71
Berlin Scharoun Ensemble | Gaspare Vittorio Buonomano | Henning Trog | Sarah Willis
Beethoven came to be irritated by the success of his Septet, and told his publisher that the best that could...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 10/2011
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