Artur Schnabel plays Mozart and Schubert

Artur Schnabel | Karl Ulrich Schnabel

It is all too easy to pigeon-hole composers. Geminiani, forever associated with Corelli by his violin playing and his concerto...

Reviewed in issue 11/1992

Beethoven Middle Period Quartets

Tokyo Qt

Let me say straight away that the Tokyo Quartet's set of the middle-period quartets is among the most impressive to...

Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 3/1992

Beethoven Piano Concerto No 5; Variations, WoO80

Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra | Kurt Sanderling | Mitsuko Uchida

It is years since I heard the first movement of the Emperor Concerto directed and played as grandly and thrillingly...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 9/1999

Beethoven Cello Works

Maria Kliegel | Nina Tichman

Reviewed in issue 9/2002

Beethoven Variations for Piano

Benjamin Frith | Peter Hill

Benjamin Frith, it seems, occasionally plays duos with Peter Hill, which leads one to speculate about the possibility of their...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 11/1991

Beethoven Symphony Nos 2 & 7

Minnesota Orchestra | Osmo Vänskä

The qualities that have distinguished Osmo Vänskä’s Minneapolis Beethoven cycle are very much in evidence in this final disc of...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 1/2009

Beethoven Symphony No 9

Cleveland Orchestra | Cleveland Orchestra Chorus | Frank Lopardo | Franz Welser-Möst | Kelley O'Connor | Measha Brueggergosman | René Pape

New agreement, new recording…and a new Beethoven cycle, I wonder? If Franz Welser-Möst’s meaty Choral is the first step along...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 11/2007

BEETHOVEN The Complete String Quartets Vol 1

Belcea Quartet

Rather than presenting their Beethoven set in a neat chronological series, the Belcea Quartet mix quartets of different periods on...

Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 01/2013

BEETHOVEN Missa Solemnis Op 123

Benjamin Hulett | Champs-Élysées Orchestra, Paris | Collegium Vocale Gent | David Wilson-Johnson | Gerhild Romberger | Marlis Peterson | Philippe Herreweghe

Following their Bach B minor Mass (8/12), Philippe Herreweghe and his team have produced an equally fine account of Beethoven’s...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 03/2013

Beethoven Piano Sonatas and Variations

Lars Vogt

Beethoven in C minor: now here’s a subject worthy of cogitation. Lars Vogt quotes Thomas Mann’s Dr Faustus in the...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 10/1998