BEETHOVEN LUDWIG. VAN

(CD) THE PIANO SONATAS, VOLUME VIII: SONATAS opp. 109, 110 and 111
The last stage on a long journey: It was a jour fixe for all major newspapers and music critiques in Germany and Switzerland when Andras Schiff's Beethoven cycle reached the famous triptych of his very last sonatas in the concert halls in Zurich and Munich in November 2006. "This was a Beethoven which transfixed the audience with its Apollonian balance, its subtly hued sonic and dynamic differentiation, depth of thought and technical command...The three sonatas sounded like a quintessence of pure late style, otherworldly as if made from pr...
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(4CD) GLENN GOULD
Toronto Symphony Orchestra, CBC Symphony Orchestra...
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(3CD) COMPLETE PIANO CONCERTOS
A virtuoso pianist of exceptional stature, Beethoven took Vienna by storm upon his arrival in the Austrian capital, eliciting such comments as 'He isn't a man, he's the devil himself!' by contemporary rivals. His expressiveness of playing was in fact responsible for ushering in a new era of the piano concerto, his eccentricity of ideas and hitherto unprecedented 'violence' of key changes creating a music that no longer found fulfilment merely in terms of beauty and originality, but which went the extra mile in now expressing a message. The...
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(2CD) LEONORE, Op.72
At the time of its first release in 1977, this was a groundbreaking set, presenting for the first time to an international public the first thoughts - or the first extant thoughts - of Beethoven in his protracted attempts to write an opera. Subjects came and went, but the story, already the subject of two operas now consigned to historical oblivion, of a political prisoner rescued by his wife in travesti, retained an obvious and persistent appeal to a composer who had already distinguished himself - and lost not a few clients in the proces...
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(CD) PIANO SONATAS: No.14 "MOONLIGHT", No.23 "APPASSIONATA", No.31 opp.110
"Since his victory in the Reine Elisabeth Competition in Belgium in 1992, at the age of 22, Braley has allowed himself plenty of time for reflection, and his career... has been, in his own image, refined and demanding." (Michel Le Naour, Le Monde de la Musique). "This young French pianist, who made his recording debut with a Schubert disc for harmonia mundi, is an exquisitely polished player." Performance ***** (BBC Music Magazine). "Schubertian elegance, a playful fluency, the desire to bring colour and timbre to his sound" are not th...
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(CD) PIANO CONCERTOS: NO.2 IN B FLAT MAJOR, OPUS 19 - NO.3 IN C MINOR, OPUS 37
Concerto no.2 in B Flat Major, Opus 19 Concerto no.3 in C Minor, Opus 37...
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(CD) TRIPLE CONCERTO Op.56
The Triple Concerto may well be one of Beethoven's most enigmatic works: some commentators have seen it as no more than a vast rhapsody intented to show off the virtuosity of three hand-picked soloists. But when a piano trio that regularly plays together turns its attention to the piece, it takes on a quite different aspect: it becomes a genuine "Concerto for trio and orchestra". In fact the "Triple" shares the same Beethovenian ideal as the heroic quest that is Egmont: and in the case of the incidental music for his drama Goethe recognise...
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(4-CD SET) GLENN GOULD
[CD1] Johann Sebastian BACH (1685-1750) Goldberg Variations, BWV 988 Symphonies, BWV 787-801 [CD2] Ludwig van BEETHOVEN (1770-1827) Piano Concerto No. 1 in C major op. 15 Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Sir Ernest MacMillan Piano Concerto No. 3 in C minor op. 37 CBC Symphony Orchestra, Dr. Heinz Unger [CD3] Ludwig van BEETHOVEN (1770-1827) Piano Sonata No. 19 in G minor op. 49,1 Piano Sonata No. 28 in A major op. 101 Six Bagatelles op. 126 Fifteen Variations on an Original Theme in E-flat major op. 35 "Eroica Variations" [CD4] Alban BERG (1885...
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(CD) PIANO CONCERTO NO. 4 IN G MAJOR OPUS 58 - TRIPLE CONCERTO IN C MAJOR OPUS 56 FOR PIANO, VIOLIN, CELLO AND ORCHESTRA
Piano Concerto No. 4 in G Major Opus 58 Triple Concerto in C Major Opus 56 for Piano, Violin, Cello and Orchestra The Royal Philarmonic Orchestra, Conductor: Howard Shelley...
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(2CD) CELLO SONATAS AND VARIATIONS
Beethoven's oeuvre only comprises a small collection of works for cello and piano, but that the composer was an accomplished writer for this combination of instruments is evident from the fact that Jean-Louis Duport, one of Frederick II's court cellists and one of the most revered musicians of his day, incorporated many of the techniques found in the Op.5 sonatas into his instruction manual for cello. The two works each contain only two movements, and the absence of a slow movement was probably to avoid the problem of dynamic imbalance bet...
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(5CD) COMPLETE PIANO TRIOS
The piano trio existed, in other guises, long before Ludwig van Beethoven got his hands on it. But he was the composer who would expand the genre beyond all recognition, using his relentless creativity to exploit the piano trio to its full potential. Beethoven begins his transformation of the genre - after his first two trios in the style of Haydn - with the emancipation of the cello, giving greater individuality to each of the three instruments. Piano Trio Op.1 No.3 foretells - almost ten years in advance - the heroicism of the composer'...
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(CD) SYMPHONY NO.6 IN F MAJOR, OPUS 68 "PASTORAL" - EGMONT, OPUS 84: OVERTURE
1-5. Symphony no.6 in F Major, op.68 "Pastoral" 6. Egmont, op.84 - Overture...
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(86CD) BEETHOVEN COMPLETE EDITION
It would not be an overstatement to declare that Ludwig van Beethoven stands as one of the most significant figures in Western civilisation: a composer who shaped the course of music history through his mastery of rhythm, melody and harmonic exploration, pushing the boundaries of form and effectively bridging the gap between Classicism and Romanticism - and yet all the while continuously professing how difficult he found composition. Detailing his complete output - from his earliest years to his last, by which time he had almost completely...
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(CD) LETTRE A ELISE
This recording gives us a glimpse into Beethoven's daily work habits as well as of a temperament that was much more versatile than we might imagine - whether he is charming the Viennese public (Fur Elise) or working on a great monument like the Sonata, Op.110....
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(CD) SYMPHONY NO.9 IN D MINOR, OPUS 125 "THE CHORAL"
1. Allegro ma non troppo 2. Molto vivace 3. Adagi molto e cantabile - Andante - Moderato 4. Presto 5. Presto: O Freunde, nicht diese Tone! - Allegro assai "Ode to Joy" Chorus: The Ambrosian Singers Soloists: Gillian Webster, Catherine Wyn-Rogers, Martyn Hill, Robert Hayward THE ROYAL PHILARMONIC ORCHESTRA, CONDUCTOR: RAYMOND LEPPARD...
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(CD) PIANO CONCERTOS NOS. 3 AND 5 "EMPEROR"
Beethoven's piano concertos are cornerstones of the keyboard repertoire, and yet in their time they formed the subject of much cynical debate: the sounds that we are today adjusted to were difficult for the ears of concert-goers then, and any unexpected turns in the music were deemed whimsical and purposefully audacious. Today we appreciate them as part of a continuous story that Beethoven is trying to communicate: inspiring, grand and poetic are just some of the words that come to mind when describing these works. This release focuses on ...
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(4-CD SET) COMPLETE VIOLIN SONATAS
Sonatas for piano with violin, Beethoven thought of them, and the early set of three Op. 12 does seem to look back towards the early Classical, even late-Baroque emphasis on the multi-voiced part to which the violin adds emphasis or decoration as required. But the genre matured with Beethoven, and by the time of the 'Kreutzer' he was composing a fullyfledged, pre-Romantic virtuoso journey for the combination, vast in breadth of expression and length. These works have always attracted great artists, but every generation must come to them af...
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(CD) FLAVOURS
This compilation provides a showcase of the many aspects of the cello and the range of emotions and characters that the instrument is able to convey. Opening the collection is Debussy's technically demanding Sonata in D minor, a staple of the cello repertoire. The whimsical motives, repetitive tones and scales of this work give way to the ingenious combination of atonality and Romantic lyricism of Schnittke's Sonata No.1, which is followed by Beethoven's visionary Sonata No.5 in D, a homage to J.S. Bach. This is in turn succeeded by Van Br...
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(2CD) THE PIANO SONATAS, VOLUME I: SONATAS opp. 2 and 7
ECM now presents Schiff's long awaited first cycle of the complete 32 sonatas. The pianist opted for live-recordings. The concert situation not only facilitates communicative immediacy, but also creates musical suspense. Andr?s Schiff uses two different grand pianos: a Bosendorfer, which, as he says himself, "is adequate to the Vienna dialect", which he likes in the early Beethoven, and a Steinway maintained by the internationally renowned piano technicians Fabbrini from Italy. Schiff rates the Steinway as the more objective and powerful i...
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(10-CD SET) BEETHOVEN
Symphonies Piano Concertos Violin Concerto Violin Sonatas Piano Sonatas...
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