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Beethoven Library of Piano Works, Vol. IV: Bagatelles and Rondos (Book & CD) (Beethoven Library of Piano Works)

author: Beethoven asin: 0757908160 binding: Paperback list price: $12.95 USD ... price: $12.95 Arranged for Late Intermediate Piano Book & CD. Volume four of this series includes 12 original piano works by Beethoven. Donald Beattie, founder and president of The Beethoven Society for ...

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Bernstein on Beethoven: A Celebration in Vienna/Bernstein in Vienna: Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 1

... Bernstein's efforts (covering two discs) during the 1970 Beethoven anniversary year. His famous Beethoven documentary--which includes a ... the thrills and beauty of Bernstein in the first Beethoven piano concerto, performing as conductor and pianist (he does likewise for ...

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Beethoven - Choral Fantasy and Triple Concerto for Violin, Cello & Piano / Barenboim, Ma, Perlman

... to assemble a better group of musicians to perform Beethoven's Triple Concerto and Choral Fantasy. Daniel Barenboim has been so ... and creating a sense of impromptu in the Fantasy's long piano solo, which Beethoven wrote for himself and partly improvised at the ...

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"Beethoven: Piano Sonatas Opp. 109, 110 & 111"

... price: $16.98 USD amazon price: $30.71 USD Beethoven's last three piano sonatas have long been regarded as the Mt. Everest of the form, heights ...

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Ludwig van Beethoven: Sonata in F minor, Op. 57, Appassionata

... amazon price: $16.99 USD This CD presents Beethoven's immortal "Appassionata" sonata in three separate performances on ... composed the "Appassionata", a consensus regarding how a piano should sound had not been achieved. Indeed, the instrument was in the ...

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Beethoven: Triple Concerto; Septet

... FOUR GRAMMY AWARD WINNING ARTISTS ON ONE DISC. As Beethoven himself was well aware, his Concerto for Piano, Violin and Cello - commonly called the "Triple Concerto" - was unique in ...

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Beethoven: Piano Concerto No 5

... the Vienna Philharmonic. Yefim Bronfman also gives regular piano recitals in the leading concert halls of the United States, Europe, and ... Record Critics' Award for its seminal recording of all Beethoven's symphonies, the oldest symphony orchestra in Switzerland has been ...

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Beethoven Symphony No. 5, Piano Concerto No. 4

... price: $17.95 USD 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 ...

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Beethoven's Piano Sonata in E, Op. 109 (Studies in Musical Genesis and Structure)

... USD BL A unique view of this important Beethoven piano sonata In his thorough analytical study of Beethoven's Piano Sonata in ...

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Beethoven: Piano Sonatas

... Dating from 1932-35, this was the first complete cycle of Beethoven's piano sonatas ever recorded. It has remained available almost continuously ...

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Beethoven: Triple Concerto

... price: $35.20 USD Not many people know that Beethoven actually turned his one and only Violin Concerto into a piano concerto. Most critics and musical scholars have had a good time trashing ...

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Baby Needs Beethoven

... tonal colors and shapes. Not so with this excellent Beethoven set. Recognized ensembles take up the music, from the Chamber Music ... gentler side, from the poetic "Für Elise" for solo piano to the bucolic settings portrayed in the two selections from Beethoven's ...

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Great Recordings Of The Century - Beethoven: Triple Concerto; Brahms: Double Concerto / Oistrakh, Rostropovich, Richter

... price: $13.48 USD Among the concertos of Beethoven and Brahms, these two have always been stepchildren. One reason is ... so Beethoven wrote an idiomatic part only for the piano. Brahms's friend Joseph Joachim offered advice for the violin concerto, ...

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Music Minus One Piano: Beethoven Concerto No.3 In C Minor, Op.37

... need be said about this wonderful concerto, which shows Beethoven in thorough command of the idiom. Striking passages, its trademark ... practice purposes. Musicians:Performed by Milena Mollova, piano Accompaniment: Plovdiv Philharmonic Orchestra Conductor: Nayden Todorov ...

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Beethoven`s Piano Sonatas: A Short Companion

... price: $35.00 USD amazon price: $28.00 USD Beethoven's piano sonatas form one of the most important collections of works in the whole ...

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Beethoven: The Complete Piano Sonatas

... that he was considered one of the supreme interpreters of Beethoven. He recorded complete sets of the sonatas and concertos twice, and just about all the rest of the chamber music with piano as well. Kempff was a classicist by nature, and his approach to Beethoven ...

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Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 (Piano Transcription)

... price: $8.99 USD Franz Liszt was one of Beethoven's greatest champions and admirers, and his acclaimed transcriptions ... attention to detail and intimate understanding of Beethoven's compositions resulted in these transcriptions, which are considered ...

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Beethoven: The Complete Piano Sonatas & Concertos

... nothing but scorn for pianists who played the opening of Beethoven's Opus 111 with two hands instead of one because there were fewer ... was the interpreter's duty to find. Arrau's devotion to Beethoven is memorialized by this budget-priced, 14-CD collection of his ...

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Beethoven: String Quartet, Op. 127; Piano Sonata, Op. 101

... Perahia is a marvelous pianist. His performance of the Beethoven Sonata must be one of the best on record. Everything about it is ... slow movement is deeply expressive (truly "yearning," as Beethoven indicates), and melts naturally into the brilliant buoyancy of the ...

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Beethoven: Piano Sonatas, Vol. 2

... price: $8.99 USD amazon price: $9.14 USD Beethoven's Farewell Sonata has three movements--departure, absence, and ... and Tempest Sonatas are, in many respects, quintessential Beethoven: passionate, turbulent, but always formally perfect. Jeno Jando's ...

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Beethoven: Sonataen - Waldstein, Les Adieux, Appassionata

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Emil Gilels unfailingly conveys a manly strength in his performances of Beethoven's music, with a feeling of power held in reserve. The technique is stunning, but what is truly extraordinary is the lively, leonine quality of the playing. Gilels's account of the Waldstein has the quintessential energy and gruffness one associates with the work, and his rendition of Les Adieux is among the most imaginative ever captured. --Ted Libbey

BEETHOVEN : Hammerklavier etc - Brendel

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Alfred Brendel plays Beethoven Piano Sonatas

Beethoven: Sonaten opp. 101 & 106

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Beethoven: Piano Sonatas, Vol. 2

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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

Beethoven Piano Sonata #8 in C Minor, Op.13 ""Pathetiq"

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Beethoven: The Violin Sonatas

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There are two really famous Beethoven violin sonatas, the Kreutzer and the Spring. The Kreutzer Sonata inspired the story by Leo Tolstoy, which in turn became the subject of Janácek's First String Quartet, so if you're into comparative studies in the arts, there's a thesis topic for you! The Spring Sonata was featured in Woody Allen's Love and Death, among other places. And perhaps most intriguingly of all, the scherzo of the late sonata, Op. 96, turns up quite clearly in the third movement of Mahler's Second Symphony. So you may already know more about this splendid music than you think. Why not take the plunge with these superb performances and get to know the sonatas at first hand? Just as there are two truly famous Mozart sonatas, there are also two sides to Itzhak Perlman's musical career--the flashy virtuoso and the considerate partner. Chamber-music recordings such as this feature Perlman in this second role, one that gets less attention than his other, more sensational, persona, but which for many listeners is even more musically rewarding. Ashkenazy, no mere accompanist, is very much involved in the proceedings, and the two musicians combine to produce one of the finest sets of Beethoven violin sonatas available as well as one of Perlman's very greatest recordings in any genre. --David Hurwitz

Beethoven: Triple Concerto; Schumann: Piano Concerto

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The Beethoven Triple Concerto is a strange work, with the most important---or at least prominent---solos given to the cello; it is the instrument which introduces each movement. The remarkable Martha Argerich wisely allows Mischa Maisky to shine in his solos and leading position, but her contribution is anything but back seat. Her customary virtuosity is everywhere in evidence, and, in a way, she turns the piano into the spinal column of the work, with the violin and cello playing around her. Every time Maisky is about to lapse into a mannerism which might detract---too much sliding, a dynamic slightly exaggerated---Argerich brings him back, and both of them play with handsome tone. Capucon's violin is recorded a bit stridently (this was taped live in Lugano), but his playing is equally stunning. Alexandre Rabinovitch-Barakovsky leads the orchestra matter-of-factly until the final movement, when he catches the proper fire. In the Schumann A minor concerto Argerich is wonderful the solo passages and a fine partner in orchestrated ones and she really makes much of both the lyrical runs and the dance-like passages in the last movement. Recommended. --Robert Levine

Beethoven: Sonatas for piano No29; Sonatas for piano No3

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Sviatoslav Richter was devoted to Beethoven and kept nearly two dozen of the composer's 32 sonatas in his active repertory. But some sonatas--such as No. 3 in C Major (Opus 2, No. 3), No. 7 in D Major (Opus 10, No. 3), and No. 32 in C Minor (Opus 111)--turned up on Richter programs decade after decade, while others appeared for a season or so never to return. Richter's relationship to Sonata No. 29 in B-flat (Hammerklavier) belongs to the latter category. He performed it all over Europe in the spring and summer of 1975 and seems never to have programmed it again. One wonders why. Richter was designed by God to perform the Hammerklavier. He had the huge hands necessary for its reckless leaps, the strength and stamina for its marathon length, and the intellect necessary to make lucid its grinding dissonance and (in the finale) its pounding counterpoint. Perhaps Richter thought that at 60--his age when he began to program it--he was a little too old for the Hammerklavier. Certainly, even a Richter enthusiast can be forgiven for wishing the pianist had turned to the piece 10 years earlier. Still, the pianist's Hammerklavier is heroically grand and fiercely energetic. Of the three performances of the sonata that Richter gave in a two-week period (and that have been preserved on disc) in London, Prague, and Aldeburgh (this disc), this recording is probably best-suited to most listeners. While not as exciting as the risk-taking Prague performance, it is much better recorded and more accurate. It also contains several bonuses: beautifully played versions of Beethoven's Sonata No. 3 and of three bagatelles from the composer's Opus 126. --Stephen Wigler