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Beethoven: Piano Concertos Nos. 3 & 5, Piano Sonata No.5 Op.10, etc.

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Beethoven: Piano Concertos Nos. 1,2 & 4, 6 Bagatelles

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Beethoven: Piano Sonatas/Piano Concertos/Bagatelle

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Beethoven: Cello Sonatas Nos. 1-5

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Beethoven: Moonlight, Waldstein, Appassionata / Ashkenazy (Penguin Music Classics Series)

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This troika of piano sonatas shows off some of Beethoven's most crystalline writing: from the impressionistic, sensual Moonlight to the somewhat mournful Appassionata to the wonderful, intricate aural shoving match of Waldstein. On the grounds of their sheer power, these three took novelist and erstwhile liner notician John Fowles by quiet storm. He writes in his notes to the CD that he's easily brought to tears, and that Beethoven "knew how to move people quasi-divinely." What happens in Ashkenazy's performance may--or may not--be divine.

Beethoven: 5 Piano Concertos / Choral Fantasy

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Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 5 "Emperor"; Fantasy for Piano, Chorus and Orchestra

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Beethoven: Piano Trio #6 Archduke, Piano Trio #7; Perlman, Harrell, Ashkenazy

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Itzhak Perlman, Lynn Harrell, and Vladimir Ashkenazy combine majesty with a splendid sense of flow in the opening movement of the Archduke Trio, and treat the variations of the third movement in the manner of late Beethoven--with an emotive power that is all the more intense for being hushed and stilled. The digital recording, dating from February 1982, is fairly close-miked and dry, but quite acceptable. --Ted Libbey

Beethoven: Piano Sonatas

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Steinway Legends: Vladimir Ashkenazy

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Diabelli Variations

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Beethoven: Kreutzer, Spring Sonatas / Perlman, Ashkenazy

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Hands down, this is the recording to own of two of Beethoven's chamber music masterpieces, the Kreutzer and Spring Sonatas. It captures one of classical music's greatest duos--Vladimir Ashkenazy and Itzhak Perlman--at the height of their powers, and the results are glorious, made only better by a great digital remastering. The 1973 recording of the Kreutzer is filled with impassioned playing (particularly in the case of Perlman) and spot-on tonality. The first movement is unbelievably riveting in the duo's capable hands.

Archduk & Ghost Piano Trios

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Beethoven: Violin Sonatas "Kreutzer" & "Spring"

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Itzhak Perlman and Vladimir Ashkenazy play both of these pieces with unflagging virtuosity and impressive energy, bringing symphonic grandeur and scale to their account of the Kreutzer. The fingers and bow fly, yet Perlman never loses command of his tone. Recorded in 1973 and 1974, the readings are closely miked--so closely that one can literally hear the hair on Perlman's bow. The sound is weighty but clear, with excellent presence. --Ted Libbey

Essential Beethoven

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Mel Bay Beethoven Sonatas Book Two: Moderately Difficult

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This unique series offers students and teachers a graded collection of Beethoven's piano sonatas. In addition to the only duet piano sonata Beethoven ever composed along with more difficult intermediate-level favorite sonatas, this volume contains an informative biography including a moving letter Beethoven wrote to his brothers. The table of contents provides background notes on several of the sonatas. This series is ideal for introducing intermediate to advanced students to the works of this masterful composer while providing insightful biographical notes. Some fingerings have been provided by the editor.

Beethoven: Piano Concertos

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Clara Haskil: Philips Recordings, 1951-1960

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Build Your Baby's Brain

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Hundreds of compilation recordings have been thrust on the market in recent years on the theory that classical music makes a nice, non-threatening accompaniment to everything from working out to making love. And here we have one compilation promising to make your baby smarter. It's offensive enough that the music featured on these compilations is spliced up so that the most you hear of any work is a single movement; what's really annoying is the poor quality of so many of the featured performances. So it is some consolation that the artists here include such 20th-century legends as the Cleveland Orchestra under Szell and the Budapest String Quartet with Mieczyslaw Horszowski. Of course if these folks were alive, one can imagine their violent objection to this presentation of their work. --Gwendolyn Freed

The World's Favorite Piano Music

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A Piano Evening with Martha Argerich [DVD Video]

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Beethoven Symphony No. 5, Piano Concerto No. 4

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Includes Symphony NO. 5 and Piano Concerto No. 4. The work of Ludwig van Beethoven has been called the culmination of the Classical era or the wellspring of the Romantic era in European music. Historians today see him as the heir of Haydn and Mozart, carrying their musical discoveries to a new level of complexity and integration. No composer in the nineteenth century could aspire to the creation of a symphony without taking into account the example of Beethoven. In his Symphony No. 5, Beethoven achieved an unprecedented degree of unity and coherence through the use of a short musical phrase called a "movite" which recurs a number of times throughout the piece. In Piano Concerto No. 4, Beethoven breaks with tradition by beginning with an understated piano solo rather than a substantial orchestral introduction. Each CD package includes two CDs. The first, a Musical Performance Disk, features the top performers and symphony orchestras in the world, performing the best-loved music from the classical music Greats. Accompanying the Musical Performance Disc is a Conductor's Guide on a separate CD. Here, Maestro Gerard Schwarz discusses the musical performances in depth--movement by movement, section by section--using examples from the recorded performances. There's no better, more enjoyable way to get a basic education in classical music. You'll also receive a 16-page printed copy of Concert Notes, featuring the unique Music Disc Timeline, which is written to synchronize with the elapsed time display of your CD player. As you play the music on the Performance Disc, you can see exactly where the things that Maestro Schwarz discussed take place in the music. It's like looking into the score--but you don't have to know how to read music!

Beethoven: Piano Sonatas

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