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Year in Review – The Top 10 Most Popular Classical Music Reviews of 2019
For our last post in 2019, we went back and checked our statistics, finding out which reviews were most popular this year.
Beethoven
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Review: Beethoven – "Leonore" – René Jacobs
In his new release of "Leonore", René Jacobs perform the early version of Beethoven's opera, "Fidelio", with soloists and the Freiburger Barockorchester.
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Review: Beethoven – Complete Piano Concertos – Brautigam (2019)
This is Ronald Brautigam's second recording of Beethoven's Piano Concertos cycle, this time on period instruments with Die Kölner Akademie under Michael Alexander Willens.
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Review: Beethoven – Violin Concerto, Septet – Kavakos
Leonidas Kavakos is the soloist and conductor in Beethoven's Violin Concerto, and joined by members of Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks for the early Septet.
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Review: Beethoven – Piano Concerto No. 1 and 2 – Boris Giltburg
Boris Giltburg and the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic under Vasily Petrenko with a start to a new Beethoven Piano Concertos cycle.
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Review: Beethoven – Symphony No. 9 – Masaaki Suzuki
Masaaki Suzuki and the Bach Collegium Japan turns their attention to Beethoven Symphony No. 9.
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Review: Beethoven – Complete Symphonies – Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra – Nelsons
Andris Nelsons and the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra presents Beethoven's nine Symphonies, recorded at the Musikverein.
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Review: “Beethoven Around the World” – Quatuor Ébène
Quatuor Ebene begin their Beethoven complete String Quartets cycle with two of the "Rasumovsky" Quartets, Op. 59 No. 1 and 2.
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Review: Beethoven – Piano Concertos (Complete) – Jan Lisiecki
As part of Deutsche Grammophon's Beethoven 250 celebrations, Jan Lisiecki plays and conducts from the keyboard the Academy of Saint Martin in the Fields.
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Review: Beethoven And Sibelius Violin Concertos – Christian Tetzlaff
In his second recording of both concertos, Christian Tetzlaff is joined by Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin under Robin Ticciati