
Hieyon Choi has been performing Beethoven’s piano sonatas for decades, with several complete cycles to her credit in various concert venues. Between 2015 and 2023
Haochen Zhang dives into the first movement of Beethoven’s Hammerklavier Sonata at something close to the composer’s optimistically brisk metronome marking. He brings a pliable
With the Ninth Symphony, the South African piano duo of Tessa Uys and Ben Schoeman conclude their world premier recorded survey of Beethoven’s symphonies arranged
It’s admirable when pianists try to honor Beethoven’s seemingly impossible fast metronome marking for the Hammerklavier Sonata’s first movement Allegro. Regarding Artur Schnabel’s sincere yet
It is fortunate that the tragically short-lived conductor Ferenc Fricsay’s
Ferenc Fricsay’s tragically early death at 48 from stomach cancer
Having recorded Liszt’s two-piano arrangements of his symphonic poems, Leslie Howard and Mattia Ometto now bring their considerable duo expertise to Liszt’s Faust and Dante
These two pieces go well together: both have first movements based on the same four-note motive, but Beethoven puts it to very different expressive use.
This release replaces APR’s deleted edition of the tragically short-lived Mischa Levitzki’s complete HMV recordings. All of the material is now remastered and correctly pitched.
On May 30, 1975 Arthur Rubinstein played his last concert in Poland, an occasion commemorating the Lodz Philharmonic Orchestra’s 60th anniversary that featured two works: