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Beethoven: Piano Sonatas
This is a curious compilation in the sense that there is no consistency as regards the accompaniments preferred: piano for...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 8/1996
Beethoven Piano Sonatas, Vol. 3
Beethoven shows a considerable advance in personal expressiveness in the three piano sonatas Op. 10. The sweeping dramatic gesture and...
Reviewed in issue 3/1993
Beethoven Piano Concerto No 2. Bruckner Symphony No 4, 'Romantic'
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra | Bruno-Leonardo Gelber | Klaus Tennstedt
Klaus Tennstedt’s 1981 Berlin recording of Bruckner’s Fourth Symphony (EMI, 2/83) is no longer available but this superb live account...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 2/2011
Beethoven Wind Music
Beethoven's wind music does not often get an airing. Neither of the principal works on this record is in the...
Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 5/1987
Beethoven Triple Concerto; Piano Trio
Barcelona Trio | Edmon Colomer | English Chamber Orchestra
At the start, this performance of the Triple Concerto augurs well; the conductor Edmon Colomer gives us the expositional material...
Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 10/1989
Beethoven String Quartet, Op. 131
Apart from the Quartetto Italiano on Philips, which comes in a twin-pack with Op. 132, there is only one alternative...
Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 5/1985
Beethoven Symphonies Nos 1-9
Having responded happily to the fresh air and brisk tempos that David Zinman has consistently brought to Beethoven throughout this...
Reviewed in issue 7/1999
Beethoven Symphony No 9
By a happy chance, the completion of David Zinman’s Arte Nova cycle coincides with the publication in miniature score of...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 7/1999
Beethoven: Complete Violin Sonatas
Jaap Schröder | Jos van Immerseel
There are already six CD sets of Beethoven's complete violin sonatas, but this is the first to employ period instruments—a...
Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 1/1989
Beethoven Cello Sonatas
Eric Heidsieck | Paul Tortelier
The Tortelier and Heidsieck Beethoven cello sonatas have been digitally remastered, and their refinement, mischief and, above all, fine sense...
Reviewed by hfinch in issue: 2/1987
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