BEETHOVEN LUDWIG. VAN

Αθάνατη αγαπημένη (δίγλωσση έκδοση, ελληνικά-γερμανικά)
Αθάνατη αγαπημένη είναι η παραλήπτρια μιας θερμής ερωτικής επιστολής που έγραψε ο Μπετόβεν τον Ιούλιο του 1812, ενώ βρισκόταν για αποθεραπεία στα ιαματικά λουτρά της πόλης Τέπλιτς. Διακόσια και περισσότερα χρόνια μετά το μυστήριο παραμένει: Ποια ήταν αποδέκτρια της εναγώνιας πλην ανεπίδοτης εξομολόγησης τον μεγάλου συνθέτη; "Αιώνια δικός σου Αιώνια δική μου Αιώνια ο ένας για τον άλλον". (Από την παρουσίαση στο οπισθόφυλλο του βιβλίου)...
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(3-CD SET) SVIATOSLAV RICHTER PLAYS BEETHOVEN
Did Richter give more concerts than any other pianist of the 20th century? It's certainly possible. He shunned the high life and lights to set up a festival in a barn in southwest France; to drag himself across the plains and mountains of Soviet Russia, playing Hindemith and more to audiences who likely had never even heard a piano -- as well as getting in six hours of practice. Such was his appetite for making music, and his scorn for the merry-go-round of record companies and ritzy recitals. This release focuses on his mastery of Beethov...
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ΣΟΝΑΤΕΣ ΓΙΑ ΠΙΑΝΟ Ι
Γερμανός συνθέτης και πιανίστας. Αποτέλεσε μία από τις κεντρικότερες μορφές της κλασικής μουσικής και συγκαταλέγεται σήμερα ανάμεσα στους ευρύτερα αποδεκτούς συνθέτες όλων των μουσικών περιόδων και τους πλέον γνωστούς όλων των εποχών. Ο Μπετόβεν αν και ανήκει περισσότερο στην κλασική περίοδο, συνδέθηκε με το κίνημα του ρομαντισμού που ακολούθησε και τα τελευταία του έργα διακρίνονται από έντονα ρομαντικά στοιχεία. Οι συμφωνίες και τα κοντσέρτα για πιάνο που συνέθεσε αποτελούν τα πιο δημοφιλή έργα του. Από πολλούς αναγνωρίζεται ως μια από τ...
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(CD) BEETHOVEN SYMPHONIES 3 'EROICA' AND No.8, Op.93
"dark and intense Eroica, with urgent allegros ... the LSO responds with bite and refinement. Excellent bargain" (Penguin 3 stars) "Fiery, noble, and imposing was how I described Wyn Morris' earlier recording ... and this remake has those qualities and even finer playing and modern recording. [I had dubbed Morris our Celtic Furtwangler, a phrase that later appeared in adverts!] ... but the fact remains, Morris knows his Beethoven and conducts it (like Burton speaking Shakespeare) with an ardour and love of tonal splendour that is close to ...
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(CD) VIOLIN CONCERTO, VIOLIN ROMANCES 1,2
"Schneiderhan's version is amongst the greatest recordings: the serene spiritual beauty of the slow movement and the playing of the second subject in particular have never been surpassed ... Jochum provides a background tapestry of breadth and dignity" (Penguin Guide Rosette) "technically the best stereo version in the catalogue ... slow-movement cadenza is rather good, with its hint of the finale theme just before the end ... after the second cadenza in the finale, Jochum brings the 'cellos and basses in with tremendous effect" (Gramophon...
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(2CD) THE PIANO SONATAS, VOLUME V: SONATAS opp. 31 and 53
Volume V of Andras Schiff's highly-acclaimed Beethoven cycle in chronological order includes four masterworks from the so called "middle" period on two CDs: The three sonatas of opus 31, written in 1801-02 shortly before the Eroica symphony, display varied characters, the first one being humorous and the second more dramatic, whereas the third sonata is tender and lyrical in the two initial, exuberant in the last two movements. The famous "Waldstein" sonata is a virtuosic highlight of Beethoven's complete oeuvre with most extraordinary son...
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(CD) THE PIANO SONATAS, VOLUME VI: SONATAS opp. 54, 57, 78, 79 and 81a
Andras Schiff's landmark Beethoven cycle, recorded live in Zurich's Tonhalle, now reaches its sixth volume with music written between 1804 and 1810, including the celebrated "Appassionata" op. 57 is preceded by the F-major Sonata Op. 54 whose mood is, as Schifff notes, partly song-like, party heavily accented. The Op 78 Sonata takes us into a very lyrical as well as a capriciously playful world. The sonata Op.79 is incisive and extrovert and the "Les Adieux" Sonata "presents us with a wonderful portrayal of a spiritual state between farewe...
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(CD) THE PIANO SONATAS, VOLUME III: SONATAS opp. 49, 14 and 22
International critics writing on the first two volumes of Andras Schiff's Beethoven cycle have praised a particularly "sharp attention to detail" (Jed Distler in Gramophone on volume II) and expressed their high expectations for the edition as a whole, with Le monde de la musique saluting Schiff as one of the "great Beethoven interpreters of our time." Michael Church's remark on Volume II of Schiff's cycle in The Independent applies no less to this third instalment: "These are early works, but he shows them to be fully fledged masterpieces...
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(CD) BEETHOVEN: VIOLIN CONCERTO IN D MAJOR Op.61, MOZART: VIOLIN CONCERTO No.3 IN G MAJOR K216
Mozart: Violin Concerto No. 3 in G Major, K. 216 Played by the Philharmonia Orchestra / Andre Cluytens (conductor) David Oistrakh (violin) Beethoven: Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 61 Played by the French National Radio Orchestra / Andre Cluytens (conductor) David Oistrakh (violin)...
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(CD) PIANO CONCERTOS 3 & 4
Piano concerto no.3 in C minor op.37 Piano concerto no.4 in G op.58 Maria Joao Pires: piano Sweedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Daniel Harding...
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(CD) VIOLIN CONCERTO
Beethoven's Violin Concerto is one of the best?loved works in the instrument's repertoire, so it is surprising that it was not particularly well received after its premiere in 1806, perhaps because Beethoven finished the violin part so late that his colleague, the eminent violinist Franz Clement, had to sight read parts of it! Thanks to its revival in 1844, with performances by Joseph Joachim - who was only 12 years old at the time - under the baton of Mendelssohn, the concerto came to enjoy the admiration and renown that it undoubtedly de...
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(CD) THE PIANO SONATAS, VOLUME IV: SONATAS opp. 26, 27 and 28
The fourth instalment of Schiff's complete Beethoven includes the sonatas opp. 26, 27 and 28 - highly accomplished works of strong individual features that were written in 1800 and 1801. Even in the famous "Moonlight"-sonata the Hungarian's attention to detail leads to unexpected listening experiences. "Nobody in the hall will have heard this first movement like that before" wrote Peter Hagmann in the Neue Zurcher Zeitung reviewing the recital in Tonhalle Zurich where the sonatas are recorded live for ECM. "Not the kind of over-demonstrati...
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(CD) EMIL GILELS PLAYS BEETHOVEN
Piano Sonata No. 7 In D Major Op. 10 No. 3, Eroica Variations Op. 35, Piano Sonata No. 25 In G Major Op. 79, Piano Sonata No. 26 In E Flat Major Op. 81A "Les Adieux"...
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(2CD) COMPLETE MUSIC FOR PIANO AND VIOLONCELLO
"Beethoven's five sonatas for piano and cello show in a nutshell the same evolution that the 32 piano sonatas show," said Andras Schiff recently. "You have this wonderful young lion Beethoven in the opus 5 sonatas, you have the opus 69, the A major, which stands in the middle of his life, and then you have these wonderful two works, opus 102, which are at the gates of the late style, the last phase. And these are in a way experimental works, but fully crystallized." Superbly played by Schiff and Miklos Perenyi, these may be the definitive ...
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(7-CD SET) COMPLETE STRING QUARTETS
The genius of Beethoven is probably not most commonly associated with chamber music. Indeed, for considerable stretches of his career he avoided the string quartet, a musical form with such an exalted status at the time; he mostly took on the challenge towards the ends of what are often regarded as his two 'creative periods'. When he did, however, he was at the pinnacle of his chamber music abilities. The pieces in this collection can be grouped according to three distinct periods of Beethoven's life. The first set are to some extent inde...
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(3-CD SET) MARIA YUDINA PLAYS J.S. BACH, BEETHOVEN, BRAHMS, LISZT
One of the few artists openly opposed to the Soviet leadership, Maria Yudina today ranks among the greatest musicians of her age. A phenomenal pianist who is particularly remembered for the virtuosity, spirituality and intellectual rigour of her playing, she prized Bach above all, as did all the Great Russian pianists of her day, but ventured far forward into the music of her own time, and was friends with many dissident artists and composers. Stalin famously had a soft spot for her Mozart playing; it is thought that this is what prevented...
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(CD) THE PIANO SONATAS, VOLUME VII: SONATAS opp. 90, 101 and 106
Ένα εντυπωσιακό σημείο της ηχογράφησης είναι τα σαράντα πέντε λεπτά της Hammerklavier Sonata. Κοιτώντας τα γρήγορα σημάδια του μετρονόμου, ο Schiff δίκαια την ονομάζει "ίσως την πιο δύσκολη σε όλο το ρεπερτόριο του πιάνου - τεχνικά, δομικά, ατμοσφαιρικά, μεταφυσικά". Οι κριτικοί στην Αγγλία την Γερμανία και την Ελβετία εξέφρασαν ομόφωνα τον θαυμασμό τους καθώς παρακολούθησαν το ρεσιτάλ αυτού του ρεπερτορίου τον Μάιο του 2006, υπερθεματίζοντας τη βαθιά γνώση του Schiff σε ότι αφορά στη δομή, στο μουσικό περιεχόμενο και στο υπέροχο ηχητικό α...
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(CD) THE PIANO SONATAS, VOLUME II: SONATAS opp. 10 and 13
Schiff's concept to record the sonatas live and on two different pianos has found much respect with reviewers. In an interview for the Swiss magazine Musik und Theater Schiff again outlined his unconventional approach: "I'm fully convinced that vivid performances are possible only in front of an audience. I obviously don't share Glenn Gould's opinion that concerts are superfluous and that work in the recording studio is so much more important. Being an artist you live for those very moments when music really happens." Schiff plays each pro...
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(2CD) DIABELLI-VARIATIONEN
Ο εκδότης Diabelli, ερασιτέχνης μουσικός έγραψε ένα ανώδυνο βαλσάκι. Μετά, απευθύνθηκε σε 50 συνθέτες και τους ζήτησε να του γράψουν από μία παραλλαγή ο καθένας τους. Ο Beethoven συνέθεσε 33 παραλλαγές. Το έργο του, μαζί με τις Παραλλαγές Goldberg του Bach, θεωρούνται δύο από τις κορυφές της μουσικής του Δυτικού κόσμου. Οι Παραλλαγές σ' ένα βάλς του Diabelli, op. 120 είναι ένα αριστούργημα με πολλαπλά επίπεδα ανάγνωσης, ένα δοκίμιο πάνω στο πως μια στοιχειώδης μελωδία μετατρέπεται σε υψηλό έργο τέχνης: ανάλαφρο, σχεδόν αφελές και ταυτόχρον...
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(CD) SYMPHONY No.9
Symphonie no.9 op.125 en re mineur Melanie Diener: soprano Petra Lang: mezzo-soprano Endrik Wottrich: tenor Dietrich Henschel, basse La Chapelle Royale, Collegium Vocale Gent, Orchestre des Champs-Elysees Dir. Philippe Herreweghe...
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