CD From Hell: Immerseel’s Clunky and Prosaic Beethoven

Jed Distler

Artistic Quality:

3

Sound Quality:

9

As a Beethoven fortepianist, Jos Van Immerseel never attained the […]

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Recording Details:

Album Title: Piano Works of the Young Beethoven
Reference Recording: Brautigam (BIS)

BEETHOVEN, LUDWIG VAN:
Piano Sonatas Nos. 5, 7, 8, 9, 10, 14, 15, 18, & No. 12 first movement; Andante favori WoO 57; Rondo in G Op. 129; other works

Soloists: Jos Van Immerseel (fortepiano)

Record Label: Alpha - 594
Medium: CD

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