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The first thing you notice about these performances is the dark, registrally differentiated timbres of Garrick Ohlsson’s Bösendorfer grand piano. Listeners steeped in recorded Beethoven
A friend of mine called while I was auditioning these terrific performances, and when I told him how much I was enjoying the disc he
Beethoven may have written more than 80 songs–but he wasn’t truly a song composer. Or was he? A quick glance at the catalog reveals a
The Royal Philharmonic plays beautifully in the C major concerto’s Largo, notably in the rounded, sustained string playing and the excellent woodwind solos. If the
This is an exciting live performance of this opera, recorded in Salzburg in 1969 when all of the principals were in their primes. Karl Böhm
On one level, this new set of Beethoven piano concertos must be counted an unalloyed success: Pierre-Laurent Aimard and Nikolaus Harnoncourt collaborate extremely well. Note
Just in case you thought you’d heard the last of “authentic” Beethoven symphonies with John Elliot Gardiner’s complete set on Archive, there are evidently legions
In the context of Günter Wand’s familiar and truly incandescent 1987 Beethoven Ninth recording, Testament’s reissue of the conductor’s relatively obscure mono traversal from 1956
There was a time when a conductor interpreting a Beethoven symphony examined the score, brought his own artistic insights to bear in combination with his
Herbert von Karajan’s 1977 Beethoven cycle appeared during the height of his fame and was embraced wholeheartedly by both press and public. Indeed, in some
