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Beethoven: Piano Sonatas
How good to find the early F minor Sonata, Op. 2 No. 1—chosen by the composer to launch his great...
Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 3/1988
Schubert & Mozart Piano Quintets
Artur Schnabel | Claude Hobday | Pro Arte Quartet
There is an agreeable feeling of intimate music-making about these performances, particularly in each work's Andante the stillness with which...
Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 9/1989
Beethoven Piano Trios
The Beaux Arts Trio have undergone several changes of personnel in more recent times. So I'll start by emphasizing that...
Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 11/1994
Beethoven String Quartets
As anyone who has heard them in the flesh will testify, the Borodin Quartet produces a particularly sumptuous sonority, refined...
Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 4/1990
Beethoven Symphonies Nos. 1 & 2.
David Zinman | Zurich Tonhalle Orchestra
With eight down, and just one – albeit the most important one – to go, David Zinman and his Zurich...
Reviewed in issue 5/1999
Beethoven String Quartets 10 & 12
When these performances first appeared, one of our most perceptive writers on Beethoven hailed them as ''the deepest, most sensitive...
Reviewed by Robert Layton in issue: 6/1987
Beethoven (La) Lettre à Elise
A few years ago Wilfred Mellers said: ‘Beethoven, whom we conventionally associate with Teutonic introspection and angst, is also by...
Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 7/2005
Beethoven Piano Sonatas, Vol. 2
This CD is the second release in a cycle of the complete Beethoven piano sonatas. I did not enjoy it...
Reviewed by James Methuen-Campbell in issue: 1/1989
Beethoven Piano Sonatas
By tackling two of the most demanding works in the repertory, where the competition is stiff and there is a...
Reviewed by Tim Parry in issue: 7/1998
Beethoven Leonore
There may be a small but possibly keen constituency for this, which is a recording of Leonore in its second...
Reviewed in issue 2/1999
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