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BEETHOVEN Piano Sonatas Nos 30 - 32 SCRIABIN Etude
For her Decca solo debut, the Italian pianist Maria Perrotta rather boldly offers a live concert recording of Beethoven’s last...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 10/2014
SCHUBERT; CHOPIN; FAURÉ Impromptus
Impromptus may be the subject of Tomasz Lis’s solo CD debut but the pianist’s generally reserved and charmless interpretations suggest...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 02/2015
Beethoven Missa Solemnis
The Tate recording is sharper than the Rilling in attention to detail and in clarity of recorded sound: for most...
Reviewed in issue 4/1990
Beethoven String Quartets
The Guarneri Quartet are one of the most admired ensembles at present before the public and let me say straight...
Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 7/1990
Beethoven Eroica Symphony
Carlo Maria Giulini | Milan La Scala Philharmonic Orchestra
Giulini's 1979 Los Angeles recording of the Eroica was—still is—a remarkable affair: as spacious as Klemperer's famously far-flung 1959 recording...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 4/1995
Beethoven/Krufft/Lachner Lieder
Andreas Staier | Christoph Prégardien
Nobody who wants something out-of-the-ordinary and of exceptional quality to enliven their listening should ignore the songs by Nikolaus von...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 10/1999
BEETHOVEN Quartets Op 18 Nos 3-5
Founded in 1953 with the distinguished cellist William Pleeth behind the project, the Allegri Quartet is celebrating its 60th anniversary...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 08/2013
BEETHOVEN Missa Solemnis
If you exclude the credits and the pauses between movements, this performance lasts just short of 75 minutes, about par...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 08/2013
BEETHOVEN Cantata on the Death of Emperor Joseph II. Symphony No 2
Sally Matthews | San Francisco Symphony Chorus | San Francisco Symphony Orchestra | Tamara Mumford
The Habsburg Emperor Joseph II died on February 20, 1790. Amusingly but unfairly caricatured by Peter Shaffer in his play...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 02/2014
Beethoven Music for Wind Instruments
Chamber Orchestra of Europe Wind Soloists
It was only in the May issue that I greeted—a shade guardedly—the new Amon Ra recording of Beethoven's two main...
Reviewed by Stanley Sadie in issue: 8/1987
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