And then the recorded notes of an orchestra playing Beethoven began to filter out of the amped-up sound system. Simply as a moment of drama, it was effective. Beethoven’s majestic but tender ...

The rule now seems that all the finest versions of the Beethoven Violin Concerto are being recorded live, not least the two I have listed above. Here is another, for Gidon Kremer's Teldec recording ...

Today there are many artists who have recorded and performed all of Beethoven’s piano sonatas, two of whom are Daniel Barenboim and Richard Goode. Beethoven wrote the Pathétique just as he was ...