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Vintage Viennese (as the pointless album title has it)revisits Beethoven’s early Op. 8 Serenade, played here by flute, viola, and guitar in an arrangement by
This is a bright, lively, and bracing performance of Beethoven’s massive quartet, made so by the inclusion of the optional Grosse Fugue Op. 133 as
Three great violinists taped Beethoven’s Violin Concerto Op. 61 at the Amsterdam Concertgebouw during the early 1970s. On two occasions, the Concertgebouw Orchestra played under
Best known to American collectors for his chamber music recordings, pianist Jan Panenka’s talents as a soloist are showcased in this reissue. His dry sonority
To the best of my knowledge, this release is the first live Wilhelm Kempff recital to appear on CD. It’s a beauty. The intimate warmth
How well you respond to these crisp, intelligent, somewhat cool and small-scaled readings largely depends on your tolerance for violinist Vera Beths’ wiry, period-instrument timbre.
These wonderful live recordings made at the Concertgebouw, Amsterdam, are vintage Argerich. In Mozart’s Concerto No. 25 (recorded in 1978 in very decent sound), she
Although Walter Gieseking did not live to complete a projected EMI Beethoven cycle (he taped about two-thirds of the sonatas prior to his unexpected death
The Mozart selections are most convincing in this previously unpublished 1966 Salzburg recital featuring the sprightly, 82-year-old Wilhelm Backhaus. If anything, the G major sonata
Several pianists have recorded the Beethoven Concerto cycle no less than three times, including Claudio Arrau, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Alfred Brendel, and Arthur Rubinstein. Daniel Barenboim’s
