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Dec 29, 2020 · Ludwig van Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 4 in G Major, Op. 58 – III. Rondo: Vivace (Friedrich Gulda, piano; Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra; Hans Müller-Kray, cond.)
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Complete String Quartets
Quartetto Italiano Decca Overall, these performances still strike a finely judged balance between beauty and truth, and are ultimately more satisfying and searching than most of their rivals... Read the review
String Quartets, Vols 1-3
Takács Quartet Decca More probing than the pristine Emersons or Alban Bergs (live), more refined than the gutsy and persuasive Lindsays, and less consciously stylised than the Juilliards (and always with the historic Busch Quartet as an essential reference) – at no point did I feel the Takács significantly wanting. They do Beethoven proud and no one could reasonably ask for more. Rob Cowan(May 2005)
String Quartets, Op 18
Tokyo Quartet Harmonia Mundi Few ensembles have characterised the A major’s cantering first idea as happily as the Tokyos do here, while the ethereal and texturally variegated middle movements anticipate the very different world of Beethoven’s “late” quartets. Beautifully blended recordings, too: if you’re after a top-ranking digital set of Op 18, you couldn’t do better... Read the review
Complete Piano Sonatas
Igor Levit pf Sony Classical A highlight is theWaldstein, the repeated C major left-hand chords underpinning a tensile energy that runs through the entire opening movement. But it’s not about momentum: Levit colours and shapes it with such finesse – withdrawing the sound to a whisper and then building to a great billowing wave. TheAdagio moltois remarkable in the way he stills the mood, conjuring an atmosphere that sounds almost like a postscript to Schubert’sWinterreise. As the music gradual...
Songs
Stephen Genz bar Roger Vignoles pf Hyperion The 26-year-old Erfurt-born baritone Stephan Genz is in the first bloom of his youthful prime. His Schumann Liederkreis, Op 24 (5/98) was the first recording to give serious warning of the distinctive lyric ardour and keen intelligence of his artistry; and now Beethoven’s setting of Goethe’s ‘Mailied’ (Op 52 No 4), with its lightly breathed, springing words, could have been written with Genz in mind... Read the full review in the Reviews Database
Choral Fantasia. Triple Concerto. Rondo for Piano & Orchestra
Pierre-Laurent Aimard pf Thomas Zehetmair vn Clemens Hagen vc Chamber Orchestra of Europe; Arnold Schoenberg Choir / Nikolaus Harnoncourt Warner Classics Listening to the opening tutti on this joyful new Triple Concerto, I could just picture Nikolaus Harnoncourt cueing his strings, perched slightly forwards, impatiently waiting for that first, pregnant forte. This is a big, affable, blustery Triple, the soloists completing the sound canvas rather than dominating it, a genuine collaborative ef...
Missa Solemnis
Laura Aikin sopElisabeth Kulman mezJohannes Chum tenRuben Drole bass-barArnold Schoenberg Choir; Concentus Musicus Wien / Nikolaus Harnoncourt Sony Classical This is a remarkable account of Beethoven’s Missa solemnisand, in one important respect, an unusual one. For though it is in no sense lacking in drama, it is in essence a deeply devotional reading. And aptly so. ‘Mit Andacht’ – ‘with devotion’ – Beethoven writes time and again during the course of the work. Where many of the Mass’s most...
Fidelio
Stemme; Kaufmann; Lucerne Festival Orchestra / Claudio Abbado Decca It was Abbado’s second Berlin Philharmonic symphony cycle from 2001 which thrust him more or less unexpectedly into the ranks of the immortals where Beethoven is concerned. And it was seven years after that, in Reggio Emilia in 2008, that he conducted his first Fidelio. Like Furtwängler in his 1953 studio recording, Abbado leads a viscerally charged performance that flies to the very heart of the matter, and does so in a vers...
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The work is in three movements : Allegro ma non troppo ( D major) Larghetto ( G major) Rondo. Allegro ( D major) It is scored, in addition to the solo violin, for flute, two oboes, two clarinets in A, two bassoons, two Natural horns, two Natural trumpets, timpani, and strings . 1. Allegro ma non troppo.
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Nov 15, 2012 · Audio: Listen to the Beethoven Stream. November is Beethoven Awareness Month at WQXR. Itzhak Perlman recorded the Beethoven Violin Concerto in 1981, when he was in his breathtaking playing prime. Everything is melody in this sprightly and lyrical interpretation.
7) Alongside Stephen Kovacevich, whose Beethoven Piano Sonatas are equally stunning (Warner). 8) Andreas Staier is superb in his recordings of the Diabelli Variations (Harmonia Mundi). 9) Alfred Brendel rules the bagatelles (Decca). 10) Quartetto Italiano (Decca) is a safe bet for Beethoven 's string quartets.
A guide to Beethoven's piano concerto no.4 and its best recordings - Classical Music.
Beethoven’s Violin Concerto is the only major Violin Concerto in the current repertoire, composed between Mozart’s five concertos of 1775 and Mendelssohn’s E minor Concerto of 1884. Yet, after its 1806 premiere, Beethoven’s Violin Concerto fell into obscurity for 38 years, until its re-discovery by a child prodigy violinist in 1844.
