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BEETHOVEN Triple Concerto
Basel Chamber Orchestra | Giovanni Antonini | Giuliano Carmignola | Sol Gabetta
‘I would almost buy the record just for Fournier,’ wrote Trevor Harvey of Pierre Fournier’s playing on the celebrated 1960...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 10/2015
BEETHOVEN Symphony No 5. Coriolan Overture
Klaus Tennstedt | London Philharmonic Orchestra
Klaus Tennstedt’s reading of Beethoven’s Coriolan Overture is typically measured and full-bodied, freighted with meaning. And the recording, made live...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 11/2015
BEETHOVEN Symphonies Nos 5 & 7
Manfred Honeck | Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra
Manfred Honeck has been looked on with favour in these columns since the late 1980s, when he directed a fine...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 12/2015
BEETHOVEN Symphony No 6. Violin Concerto
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra | Bernard Haitink | Isabelle Faust
Filmed at the 2015 Baden-Baden Easter Festival, this concert will mainly be of interest to followers of Isabelle Faust, whose...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 03/2016
BEETHOVEN Symphonies Nos 5 - 8
Copenhagen Philharmonic Orchestra | Lan Shui
If there is a constituency for recordings such as these it is probably among the ‘easy listening’ community: folk who...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 10/2016
BEETHOVEN Complete Sonatas and Variations for Cello and Piano
Frank Braley | Gautier Capuçon
With this new release, Gautier Capuçon and his regular pianist Frank Braley enter a field crowded with stellar performances from...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 11/2016
Sing to Water
The Japanese pianist Kotaro Fukuma, now in his early thirties, begins this impressive album with his own arrangement of Smetana’s...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 01/2017
L’arpa notturna
A debut recording is a statement of intent, and when the artist in question comes trailing as many accolades as...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 07/2017
BEETHOVEN Complete Piano Sonatas (excl Nos 19 & 20)
No sooner has the first double-disc release in HJ Lim’s Beethoven sonata survey (5/12) appeared than EMI releases the entire...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 09/2012
BEETHOVEN Piano Trios Nos. 1 & 7
Martin Roscoe | Moray Welsh | Peter Cropper
As Beethoven did in the Fourth Piano Concerto four years earlier, so he does in Op 97; the pianist sets...
Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 05/2012
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