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Beethoven Violin Concerto; Romances
André Previn | Joseph Swensen | Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Beethoven wrote no cadenzas for the Violin Concerto, but he provided no fewer than four for the piano and orchestra...
Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 3/1989
Beethoven Middle-Period Quartets
Every quartet brings a different set of insights to this great music so that it is not possible to hail...
Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 10/1984
Beethoven Piano Sonatas Nos 12, 21 & 32
A good deal of forethought, attention to detail and obvious practice seems to inform Nicholas Angelich’s first recorded forays into...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 3/2006
Brahms Rinaldo; Ellens Gesang II; Begräbnisgesang; Gesang der Parzen
Rinaldo was the closest Brahms ever came to composing an opera; the booklet-note writer goes so far as to describe...
Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 11/2000
Beethoven Egmont
George Szell | Klaus-Jürgen Wussow | Pilar Lorengar | Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
When my son asks me, as I fear one day he will, “Daddy, did they have proper conductors when you...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 9/1996
Beethoven Fidelio
Hamburg’s archive of early TV recordings has yielded up stronger productions of 20th-century work (the Wozzeck, Globolinks and Devils of...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 9/2007
Beethoven Piano Sonatas No 28 & 29
Part of a complete cycle of the Beethoven sonatas, this issue confirms Anton Kuerti’s deeply personal and musicianly qualities. His...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 5/2005
Beethoven Christus am Olberge
Christus am Oelberge (‘Christ on the Mount of Olives’) is a curious piece, reflecting much that was characteristic of Beethoven...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 9/2000
Beethoven Late Piano Sonatas
DG's booklet says nothing at all about Rudolf Serkin and tells us only that Austrian Radio was responsible for this...
Reviewed by Stephen Plaistow in issue: 10/1989
Beethoven Piano Sonatas, Op 10
This is young person’s Beethoven. I don’t mean that at all patronisingly – after all, this is relatively youthful, high-spirited...
Reviewed by Tim Parry in issue: 2/2001
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