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Reference Recording: Kempff’s Individual and Inimitable Beethoven Sonata Cycle

Jed Distler

Artistic Quality:

  • 9

Sound Quality:

  • 8
Since his death at 95 in 1991, Wilhelm Kempff’s standing […]
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Recording Details:

Reference Recording: This one; Arrau (Philips); Goode (Nonesuch)

    Soloists: Wilhelm Kempff (piano)

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