François-Xavier Roth conducts Les Siècles in Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony and Gossec’s “Symphonie à Dix-Sept Parties”.
Tag: Beethoven
Review: Beethoven – Complete Piano Concertos – Bavouzet, Swedish Chamber Orchestra
After recording the complete Piano Sonatas, Jean-Efflam Bavouzet performs from the keyboard Beethoven’s complete Piano Concertos, along with the “Grand Quintet”.
Editor’s Choice: The Best New Classical Music Albums, September 2020
The choices of the best classical music albums we covered on The Classic Review the past month.
Review: Beethoven – Symphonies No. 1-5 – Le Concert des Nations, Savall
Jordi Savall and Le Concert des Nations present the first volume of their Beethoven complete Symphonies cycle, with Symphonies 1-5.
Review: Beethoven – Songs and Folksongs – Bostridge, Pappano
Ian Bostridge and Antonio Pappano perform Beethoven’s “An die Ferne Geliebte” and a selection of the composer’s arrangement of Irish and Scottish folksongs.
Editor’s Choice: The Best New Classical Music Albums, August 2020
The choices of the best classical music albums we covered on The Classic Review the past month.
Review: Grigory Sokolov Plays Beethoven, Brahms, Mozart
Deutsche Grammophon presents a set of two CDs and one DVD of Grigory Sokolov in live performances of Sonatas and shorter pieces by Beethoven, Brahms and Mozart.
Review: Beethoven – Complete Bagatelles – Paul Lewis, Piano
After recording the complete Piano Sonatas and Concertos, Paul Lewis turns to the shorter form of the Bagatelle, in a new recording for Harmonia Mundi.
Review: Beethoven – Symphony No. 9, Choral Fantasy – Bezuidenhout, Heras-Casado
Pablo Heras-Casado conducts the Freiburger Barockorchester in Beethoven “choral” Symphony. Kristian Bezuidenhout joins for the Choral Fantasy.
Review: Beethoven – Symphonies 1-3 – Britten Sinfonia, Adès
Composer, pianist and conductor Thomas Adès leads the Britten Sinfonia in Beethoven’s first three Symphonies, with two compositions by composer Gerald Barry.
