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BEETHOVEN String Quartet No 13. Grosse Fuge, Op 133 (Ehnes Quartet)
It’s many a year since I’ve heard string quartet-playing that’s more sheerly beautiful than this, whether in the sum of...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 09/2021
BEETHOVEN Sonatas for Violin and Piano Op 12 No 1; Op 24; Op 96 (Rachel Podger)
Christopher Glynn | Rachel Podger
For her first recorded foray into Beethoven, Rachel Podger chooses three sonatas that suit her essentially collegial performance style. The...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 04/2022
BEETHOVEN Piano Concertos Nos 1 & 3 (Kristian Bezuidenhout)
Freiburg Baroque Orchestra | Kristian Bezuidenhout | Pablo Heras-Casado
Remember the Beethoven semiquincentennial? The 250th-birthday celebration which was squeezed, contorted, if not ignored all together, in the face of...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 06/2022
Gundula Janowitz: The Last Recital - in memoriam Maria Callas
Charles Spencer | Gundula Janowitz
Gundula Janowitz officially retired from the stage in 1990 and, according to most accounts, gave occasional recitals until around the...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 09/2017
BEETHOVEN Symphonies Nos 6 & 8 (Jordan)
Philippe Jordan | Vienna Symphony Orchestra
This has been, to date, a most distinguished Beethoven cycle, with keen-eared music-making, vividly and unobtrusively conducted, winning golden opinions...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 05/2019
BEETHOVEN Complete Piano Trios
The Oliver Schnyder Trio sprint through the opening movement of Beethoven’s Op 1 No 1, outpacing both the Florestan Trio and the...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 11/2017
BEETHOVEN Complete String Quartets Vol 4
You can tell a lot about a performance of Beethoven’s Quartet Op 18 No 2 from its first bar. It’s...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 02/2018
BEETHOVEN Music for Winds
Scottish Chamber Orchestra Wind Soloists
The playing of the Scottish Chamber Orchestra’s wind section was a highlight of Robin Ticciati’s recent recording of the Brahms...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 05/2018
BEETHOVEN Symphonies Nos 5 & 7 (van Zweden)
Jaap Van Zweden | New York Philharmonic Orchestra
The signs are that Jaap van Zweden will restore to the New York Philharmonic some of the bulk (muscle tone,...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 06/2018
BEETHOVEN Missa Solemnis (Suzuki)
Listening to this bright and honest Missa solemnis brings memories of the 1970s and early ’80s, when period-instrument bands and...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 06/2018
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