Tag Archives: Beethoven

Lion King: François-Frédéric Guy’s epic Beethoven at the Institut français

Posted on March 29, 2015 by Mark Pullinger

Mozart/Beethoven: François-Frédéric Guy **** Institut français, 28th March 2015 With grizzled mane and beard, there’s something handsomely leonine about François-Frédéric Guy. He also displays lion-like qualities at the piano: steely fingers, ready to pounce and rip chords apart, even emitting … Continue reading →

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Queyras and Melnikov: Sunny intervals quell stormy Beethoven

Posted on December 1, 2014 by Mark Pullinger

Beethoven: Cello Sonatas **** Wigmore Hall, 30th November 2014 Beethoven’s five Cello Sonatas span his compositional life – two early works, two late ones, with the third composed in the same feverish year as his Fifth and Pastoral Symphonies. French … Continue reading →

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‘The French Beethoven’ unmasked by the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment

Posted on October 23, 2014 by Mark Pullinger

Onslow/Beethoven: OAE/Roth *** Royal Festival Hall, 22nd October 2014 The name George Onslow may conjure up images of whippets, pints and rolling Yorkshire dales, but he was in fact born in Clermont-Ferrand in 1784 and was known as ‘the French … Continue reading →

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Essential listening: Brüggen’s Beethoven

Posted on October 30, 2012 by Mark Pullinger

Beethoven: Symphonies Nos. 1-9; Rebecca Nash, Wilke te Brummelstroete, Marcel Beekman, Michael Tews; Laurens Collegium & Cantorij, Rotterdam; Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century/ Frans Brüggen (Glossa SACD, 5 discs, GCDSA 921116) What is the point of period instrument Beethoven any … Continue reading →

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