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Beethoven Symphonies 1 & 5
Kurt Masur | Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra
If it is one's fate to record the greatest of all symphonic cycles, there's nothing like taking that fate by...
Reviewed by Stephen Johnson in issue: 7/1990
Beethoven Chamber Works
Beethoven composed the Octet, Op. 103 and Rondino, WoO25 sometime around 1792 and, although it was published separately, there is...
Reviewed in issue 8/1994
Beethoven: Late Quartets
The Alban Berg are the first to give us all the late Beethoven quartets on CD. The Fitzwilliam Quartet on...
Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 8/1985
Beethoven String Quartets, Vol 5
This disc, like The Lindsays’ recent account of the Op 59 Nos 1 and 3 (7/02), is in direct competition...
Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 1/2003
Beethoven Symphonies Nos. 1 and 2
Günter Wand | North German Radio Symphony Orchestra
The finest live performance I have yet heard of Beethoven’s exhilarating but cruelly difficult to bring off First Symphony was...
Reviewed in issue 6/2001
Beethoven/Spohr Chamber Works
Chantal Juillet | Christopher van Kampen | London Winds | Pascal Rogé
Beethoven modelled his Quintet on Mozart’s Quintet, K452; however, the present coupling with Spohr’s A minor Septet suggests comparisons with...
Reviewed in issue 4/1996
Schubert/Liszt Piano Works
Gilels's Liszt Sonata is tightly argued; even a little too much so. There is, perhaps, a spatial element missing, with...
Reviewed by James Methuen-Campbell in issue: 4/1994
BEETHOVEN Sonatas for Piano & Violin, Vol 2 (Hanslip & Driver)
‘It’s not always about making the most beautiful sound … some of the writing is quite violent …’ So observed...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 06/2018
BEETHOVEN Piano Trios Vol 2 (Sitkovetsky Piano Trio)
Beethoven’s three Op 1 Trios – surely the greatest opus 1 in musical history – are the work of a...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 11/2023
BEETHOVEN Complete Piano Trios (Weiss Kaplan Stumpf Trio)
This beautifully recorded new set of Beethoven’s piano trios with violinist Mark Kaplan, cellist Peter Stumpf and pianist Yael Weiss...
Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 12/2023
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