But there are exceptional cases, and the case of the 32 Beethoven piano sonatas is certainly one of them ... lacks the kind of consistent insight and acumen the music demands, though the playing is ...

So wrote Beethoven from the ... more comment than perhaps any other piano sonata of its period. Lenin, for example, while recognising his shortcomings as a music critic, wrote: "I know nothing ...

Seasoned collectors will readily warm to the beautifully recorded piano even if the brass section is placed rather distantly in the empty concert hall ambience. That said, a wealth of often obscured ...