Schubert Chamber Works

Alexander Schneider | Colorado Quartet | Danielle Dechenne | David Soyer | Emmy Verhey | Ferdinand Erblich | Jean Decroos | Jenö Jandó | Julius Levine | Michael Tree

Two bargain Trouts and the sound of the mid-1960s analogue Vanguard version is much preferable to the clear and slightly...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 11/1990

Beethoven String Quartets

Busch Qt

The Busch recorded nine of Beethoven's 16 string quartets for HMV and American Columbia during the 1930s and early 1940s....

Reviewed in issue 11/1993

Beethoven Chamber Works

Raphael Trio

We're told that the Raphael Trio, who made their debut at New York's Carnegie Hall in 1975, has given complete...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 4/1992

Beethoven Ideals of the Revolution

Adrianne Pieczonka | Kent Nagano | Maximilian Schell | Montreal Symphony Orchestra | Montreal Symphony Orchestra Chorus

Even by his own extraordinary standards, Beethoven’s Egmont Overture is a rare and wonderful distillation of a powerful and still-resonant...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 7/2009

Beethoven Piano Trios

Andreas Staier | Daniel Sepec | Jean-Guihen Queyras

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 3/2008

Beethoven Complete String Quartets

Emerson Qt

To record a cycle of Beethoven quartets is clearly a major project for any group. Apart from the sheer extent...

Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 7/1997

Beethoven String Quartets, Op. 59 No 3 & Op. 74

Turner Quartet

After listening to these fastidiously voiced performances‚ I wasn’t in the least surprised to read that the 10­year­old Turner Quartet...

Reviewed in issue 10/2001

Beethoven Complete Piano Trios

Fontenay Trio

These three medium-price discs omit all the works without opus numbers rescued by Perlman/Harrell/Ashkenazy in their full-price four-disc set, as...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 3/1994

BEETHOVEN The complete piano sonatas Vol 7 (Roscoe)

Martin Roscoe

Martin Roscoe began his traversal of the Beethoven Piano Sonatas in 2010, billed as the first complete recording of the...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 12/2018

HAYDN; MOZART; SCHUBERT Quartets (Quatour Akilone)

Quatour Akilone

In the engagingly written booklet notes accompanying this debut release from the young French Quatuor Akilone they talk in some...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 04/2019