Beethoven

…These are my type of performances—full-bodied-sounding modern instruments in up-tempo, sharply defined readings set in perfect balance between piano and orchestra. No detail—be it tempo indication,... — Fanfare, Sep/Oct 2023 More…

this is generally a fine and well-recorded performance, with a welcome degree of expressive flexibility in such moments as the opening movement’s gentle second subject. — BBC Music Magazine, May 2024, 4 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 5 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…

Landshamer’s delivery of this material is consistently beautiful, technically top-class, and pitched with laser-like accuracy….matched at every point by the accompaniments, whose range of period-instrument... — BBC Music Magazine, October 2022, 4 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 5 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…

Thrilling playing and solid singing from a reliable crack team – the superb recorded sound brings Beethoven’s liturgical work to almost operatic life. — BBC Music Magazine, April 2019, 5 out of 5 stars More…

I have never heard this concerto sound so interesting and surprising. It is, of course, known as Beethoven’s most introspective. Here it fascinates anew for the sheer sounds it makes and for... — Fanfare, Jan/Feb 2021 More…

The Czech Phil’s sound here is charismatic and idiomatic, with a rich, muscular string timbre cushioning highly distinctive wind and brass playing...The interpretations hold up very well – Kletzki’s... — Graham Rickson, The Arts Desk, 9th July 2011 More…

Pires plays with the lightness, clarity and impeccable phrasing that have made her career...Haitink keeps the orchestra firmly in classical territory, helped by reduced instrumentation. Pires... — The Wholenote, April 2019 More…