
Rudolf Buchbinder’s second recorded cycle of Beethoven’s 32 piano sonatas […]
Mitsuko Uchida’s slightly-under-the-radar cycle of Beethoven Piano Concertos with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra and the artless Kurt Sanderling (Philips/Decca) is one of my favorites
Between 1951 and 1963 Deutsche Grammophon made a sizeable number
It takes both uncommon virtuosity and sheer chutzpah to tackle Franz Liszt’s solo-piano transcriptions of the Beethoven symphonies. Only a handful of pianists have recorded
I wanted to love this. Honeck is a brilliant conductor who has given us great Beethoven. There are fantastic things in the first two movements
The Bottom Line: The Bach performances are legendary, and many
Carlton Classics’ CD reissue of Charles Rosen’s 1977 Beethoven Diabelli
Pianist Éric Heidsieck’s Erato and HMV recordings made little headway
Here is the fourth Beethoven sonata cycle from Daniel Barenboim to appear on CD, along with his fourth Diabelli Variations. Recorded in the spring of
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