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Beethoven arr Caine Diabelli Variations
Variations on variations that, unlike Uri Caine’s extravagantly discursive Goldbergs (10/00), honour the balance and proportion of the parent work....
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 1/2003
Beethoven Piano Sonata No 29 'Hammerklavier'; Diabelli Variations
Here are two of Beethoven’s longest works, one written at a time of personal crisis (1817-18) which the very act...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 9/2010
BEETHOVEN Piano Sonatas Nos 22-32 (Bavouzet)
Here is the concluding instalment – Volume 3 – of Jean-Efflam Bavouzet’s chronological journey through the 32 Beethoven sonatas, a...
Reviewed by Stephen Plaistow in issue: 12/2016
BEETHOVEN String Quartets Nos 3, 11 & 13
In case you cast an eye across the movement contents of Op 130 and feel short-changed because Beethoven’s rewritten finale...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 03/2017
BEETHOVEN Piano Sonatas, Vol 9 (Martin Roscoe)
The ninth and final volume of Martin Roscoe’s Beethoven sonata cycle for Deux-Elles matches the distinction of its predecessors. Although...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: AW22
BEETHOVEN The 5 Piano Concertos (Haochen Zhang)
Haochen Zhang | Nathalie Stutzmann | Philadelphia Orchestra
Shanghai-born Haochen Zhang took the Gold Medal in the 2009 Van Cliburn Competition and was awarded the 2017 Avery Fisher...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 01/2023
BEETHOVEN Complete Piano Variations, Vol 1 (Cédric Tiberghien)
Two decades ago Cédric Tiberghien recorded a disc of Beethoven variations (4/03) that included the three major sets here (Opp...
Reviewed by Peter J Rabinowitz in issue: 05/2023
BEETHOVEN Missa Solemnis (Gielen)
This is the fourth Gielen-directed Missa solemnis to appear on record; not the most recent – a Capriccio release of...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 05/2020
BEETHOVEN Piano Concertos (Stewart Goodyear)
Andrew Constantine | BBC National Orchestra of Wales
One of the more recent entries into the Beethoven Piano Concerto sweepstakes is the collaboration of the Canadian pianist Stewart...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 05/2020
BEETHOVEN Symphonies (Trevino)
Recorded live, it says on the back of the box, and you can tell: not by the concluding applause, which...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 08/2020
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