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Maurizio Pollini’s reputation as a fearsome intellectual and proponent of difficult contemporary music should, one would think, stand him in good stead as an interpreter
When CD players first appeared on the market in 1983, Radu Lupu’s 1979 Beethoven Emperor Concerto was the first version of this war-horse available in
Oscar Fried’s Ninth is unquestionably the crown jewel of Polydor’s generally mediocre Beethoven Symphony cycle issued in the late 1920s and early ’30s. Recorded in
The Mozart C major Concerto K. 467 on Disc One of this two-disc set is released for the first time. It offers a glimpse of
Hard on the heels of Audite’s Mozart Concerto disc (Audite 95453) with Clifford Curzon and Rafael Kubelik comes this pairing of Beethoven’s last two Concertos
Thick and fast they came at last, and more, and more, and more, wrote Lewis Carroll in “The Walrus and the Carpenter”. He might have
This Chandos reissue is full of big, rock-solid Beethoven. Walter Weller is clearly from the old school, and unashamed of it. There is something to
The Leipzig String Quartet presents Beethoven’s earliest forays into the string quartet form with first-rate results. Each phrase is well-considered and weighty; the classical-era structure
Wolfgang Sawallisch’s otherwise laudable Beethoven cycle takes a huge backslide with this final release in the series, not so much as the performance goes, but
Radu Lupu first came to international attention by taking first prize in the 1969 Leeds Competition. This paved the way for a recording agreement with
