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BEETHOVEN Missa Solemnis (Savall)
Jordi Savall’s pacing of the Missa encompasses splendour as well as vigour. It is a minute or two longer than...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 12/2023
BEETHOVEN Cello Sonatas (Gary Hoffman)
Writing in general terms, there seem to be two principal routes to the heart of these marvellous works, one relatively...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 03/2024
Beethoven Edition, Vol.15 - Wind Music
For this, the 15th of the 20 volumes of their monumental centenary edition, DG bring together recordings of Beethoven’s wide...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 13/1997
Beethoven Arrangements for Brass Ensemble
The credits of this CD refer also to members of the Boston Symphony and New York Philharmonic Orchestras, but these...
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 11/1990
Beethoven Cello sonatas
What is Beethoven’s Op 64 Cello Sonata, you may ask? Well, it’s an arrangement, first published in 1807, of the...
Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 7/2003
Beethoven - Complete Piano Trios, Volume 1
Best here is Ivan Klansky’s sensitive piano playing in the Second Trio’s pre-Brahmsian Largo e espressione. The Scherzo and finale...
Reviewed in issue 6/1999
Beethoven String Quartets Op 104 and 132
It’s a sad thought that, due to their imminent retirement, there aren’t going to be many more recordings from The...
Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 8/2003
Beethoven Variations
Just 20 this year, and already three years into his contract with DG, Gianluca Cascioli already has three fine discs...
Reviewed in issue 7/1999
Beethoven String Quartet No 13; Grosse Fuge
The relatively youthful, Cologne-based Auryn Quartet approach late Beethoven in a briskly incisive if somewhat impetuous frame of mind, their...
Reviewed by mquinn in issue: 4/1998
Beethoven Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No 3; Piano Sonatas Nos 23 & 28
Cologne Radio Symphony Orchestra | Friedrich Gulda | Mario Rossi
Just because the Beethoven Third Concerto recorded for West German Radio Cologne on February 25, 1957, was well preserved does...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 6/2008
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