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BEETHOVEN Symphonies Nos 4 & 5 (Jordan)
Philippe Jordan | Vienna Symphony Orchestra
Beethoven wrote the Fourth Symphony to unblock problems he was encountering with what we now know as the Fifth. Karajan...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 06/2018
BEETHOVEN Triple Concerto. Trio Op 11
The opening orchestral tutti seems to augur well for this new account of Beethoven’s Triple Concerto. I do miss the...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 07/2018
BEETHOVEN Complete Chamber Music with Flute
The keyword here, perhaps, is ‘complete’. Beethoven’s ‘Complete Chamber Music with Flute’ is predominantly early, some is of dubious provenance...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: AW23
BEETHOVEN Symphonies Nos 2, 7 & 9 (Noseda)
With these two albums, Gianandrea Noseda and the NSO of Washington DC conclude their Beethoven symphony cycle, and I’m left...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 05/2024
BEETHOVEN Diabelli Variations (Shai Wosner)
Serious forethought and scrutinised detail inform Shai Wosner’s interpretation of Beethoven’s Diabelli Variations, sometimes getting in the music’s way, notwithstanding...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 01/2024
BEETHOVEN Symphony No 9 (Tessa Uys, Ben Schoeman)
Here is the sixth and final volume of all nine Beethoven symphonies heard in the arrangements for piano duet by...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 03/2025
BEETHOVEN 'The Middle Quartets' (Calidore Quartet)
Any new recording of Beethoven’s quartets will provoke argument. Preconceptions inevitably play their part. What cannot be denied is the...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 10/2024
Puccini Turandot
To have Callas, the most flashing-eyed of all sopranos as Turandot, is—on record at least—the most natural piece of casting....
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 11/1987
PROKOFIEV Romeo & Juliet SCHUMANN Dichterliebe
Something old, something new, something borrowed … I guess all transcriptions are borrowed – or purloined – and viola players...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: AW21
C&E SCHUMANN Works for Viola; for Oboe; for Clarinet
Dasol Kim | James Baillieu | Julian Bliss | Julius Drake | Maxim Rysanov | Nicholas Daniel
How prescient of Schumann to designate many of his sets of domestic chamber miniatures for a choice of instruments. Not...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 11/2024
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