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Beethoven Piano Sonatas, Vol. 9
John O'Conor is a pianist of abounding sensitivity, and these recordings bear witness to his beguilingly eloquent style. In the...
Reviewed in issue 8/1994
Beethoven Lieder
Dietrich Henschel | Michael Schäfer
We habitually recognise the importance of the pianist in Beethoven’s sonatas for violin or cello, but it makes a change...
Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 9/2003
BEETHOVEN String Quartets Op 18
With Haydn, Mozart and Schubert under their belt, it was only a matter of time before the Jerusalem Quartet turned...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 09/2015
LISZT; SCHUBERT The Sound of Weimar
Martin Haselböck | Vienna Academy Orchestra
With the notable exceptions of Immerseel/Anima Eterna, Roth/Les Siècles and Rohrer/Le Cercle de l’Harmonie, the original-instrument crowd has largely avoided...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 01/2016
Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 3; Choral Fantasia
Boston Symphony Orchestra | Rudolf Serkin | Seiji Ozawa | Tanglewood Festival Chorus
The CD version has arrived before the LP (not yet scheduled), an expensive offering even if the usual concern for...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 12/1983
Beethoven Complete Piano Sonatas
It is easy to point out the fortepiano’s shortcomings, especially in the middle to late works of Beethoven. It isn’t...
Reviewed by Stephen Johnson in issue: 3/1998
BEETHOVEN Piano Sonatas Vol. 1
Strange it is that Beethoven’s most lauded movement, the first of Op 27 No 2, marked Adagio sostenuto at two...
Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 04/2012
Beethoven Complete String Quartets
When most issues of Beethoven Op 18 easily manage to fit three quartets onto a CD, it seems rather mean...
Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 7/1997
Beethoven String Quartets
“We worshipped the printed page,” said Sasha (Alexander) Schneider, long-term second violinist with the Budapest Quartet. “There was never a...
Reviewed in issue 5/1998
BEETHOVEN Prometheus
Armonia Atenea | George Petrou
The Overture is regularly played, the rest largely forgotten. But this beginning might impel you to listen to the lot....
Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: AW2014
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