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The recording career of Wilhelm Backhaus (1884-1969) spanned 60 years […]
The first “official” release of three South German Radio broadcasts
This Blu-ray titled “A Tribute to Hans Knappertsbusch” is a tribute by virtue of showing, not telling, what the conductor was about. There’s no documentary
Recalling his first Decca Vienna Philharmonic recording sessions, producer John
Wilhelm Backhaus recorded Beethoven’s complete piano sonatas in mono for
Decca’s extensive (if not quite comprehensive) Wilhelm Backhaus reissue series from the early 1990s gains a new lease on life via Arkivmusic.com’s on-demand reprint program.
Although Wilhelm Backhaus’ Beethoven ranked high among a certain generation of collectors, I’ve always felt his heartfelt, boldly communicative interpretations rather casual from a stylistic
Fresh from their denazification hearings, Backhaus and Böhm team up for a partially fabulous Beethoven Fourth Concerto. The first movement goes particularly well: crisp and
Orfeo has corralled a collection of Mozart sonata performances from the Salzburg Festival archives that features pianists approaching Mozart on diverse, often antipodal, and sometimes
The stylistic sympathy and technical élan Wilhelm Backhaus brought to his pioneering 1928 HMV set of Chopin’s Etudes had largely eroded when he came to
