Beethoven Piano Your resource for the piano music of Ludwig van Beethoven

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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.

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A complete Urtext edition of Beethoven's most famous piano sonata. Includes fingering by one of the most highly esteemed pianists in Italy, Carlo Vidusso. With an Italian preface translated into English, French, German, and Spanish.

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It takes a lot of confidence, to say nothing of experience and technical mastery to even think about tackling these three Beethovenian giants, but Irish pianist John O'Conor has more than what it takes. He delivers performances that not only show the depth of the composer's complex pianistic structures, but find the music's heart as well. The sonics are superb. --David Vernier

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Glenn Gould's playing is so treasured that CD publishers have been looking for anything of his they can find. These treasures, dredged from the CBC archives and Gould's own collection, offer some fresh material. The Beethoven trios, broadcast in 1954, don't sound great, but they are fine performances and show Gould as a fine chamber music collaborator. The piano pieces, from 1952, sound somewhat better and are played straightforwardly, without the eccentric ideas that crept into Gould's playing later in his career. This disc is probably for Gould fans only, but it should delight them. --Leslie Gerber

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Beethoven 5. Piano Concerto Mozart Sonata K. 333 and K. 576, Fantasia in d minor. Friedrich Gulda, Piano. Frederich Gulda performs and conducts Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 5 in E flat major op. 73 with the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra. This performance was recorded in 1989 in Munich, Germany. In a performance captured in 1995 Friedrich Gulda plays two pieces composed by Mozart; Sonata in B flat major, K 333 and Sonata in D major K 576. This is the first time any of these recordings has been released on video. Includes the unique feature of optional on-screen analysis of the music being performed as well as subtitle display of the mood and tempo. Biographical information about Gulda and the Munich Philharmonic is included as are on screen liner notes, a glossary of musical terms and contemporary history of the compositions. 5.1 Dolby Digital and non-compressed stereo.