Orchestral, Overtures, Beethoven (composer)
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Special offer. Beethoven: The Complete Piano Concertos
Garrick Ohlsson (piano), Grand Teton Music Festival Orchestra, Sir Donald Runnicles
…These are my type of performances—full-bodied-sounding modern instruments in up-tempo, sharply defined readings set in perfect balance between piano and orchestra. No detail—be it tempo indication,... —
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Record Review, 20th May 2023, Record of the Week
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2023, Editor's Choice
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Special offer. Beethoven: Fidelio
Lise Davidsen (Leonore), Christian Elsner (Florestan), Georg Zeppenfeld (Rocco), Johannes Martin Kränzle (Don Pizarro), Christina Landshamer (Marzelline), Cornel Frey (Jaquino), Günther Groissböck (Don Fernando), Dresdner Philharmoniker, Marek Janowski
it’s the orchestra which catches attention, with Janowski coaxing heartfelt playing from the strings and above all the horns, who somehow come to signify all that is most hopeful in this great... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, July 2021
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Opera
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Beethoven: Symphonies Nos. 1-9
RecommendedTwyla Robinson (soprano), Karen Cargill (mezzo soprano), John Mac Master (tenor) & Gerald Finley (bass), Gordan Nikolitch (violin), Tim Hugh (cello) & Lars Vogt (piano)
London Symphony Orchestra, London Symphony Chorus, Bernard Haitink
a blazing performance of the Seventh Symphony that reaches a superbly disciplined and frenzied conclusion —
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Presto Favourites, Recommended Recording
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Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 4 & 2 Overtures
Kristian Bezuidenhout (fortepiano), Freiburger Barockorchester, Pablo Heras-Casado
I have never heard this concerto sound so interesting and surprising. It is, of course, known as Beethoven’s most introspective. Here it fascinates anew for the sheer sounds it makes and for... —
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2020, Editor's Choice
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With some pretty fast tempos throughout, Riccardo Chailly and the Gewandhausorchester certainly don't hang about, but there's never any question of the music sounding rushed, and the last movements... —
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Presto Favourites, Recommended Recording
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Building a Library, January 2020, Recommended Recording
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New. Furtwängler: The Wartime Recordings 1942-1944
Wiener Philharmoniker, Berliner Philharmoniker, Wilhelm Furtwängler
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Special offer. Beethoven - Complete Symphonies
RecommendedAnna-Kristina Kaappola (soprano), Marianne Beate Kielland (mezzo), Markus Schäfer (tenor), Thomas E. Bauer (baritone)
Anima Eterna, Jos van Immerseel
Indeed, from the first bristling chords, Anima Eterna's playing held me on the edge of my seat. —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 28th April 2008
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2008, Editor's Choice
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Presto Favourites, Recommended Recording
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Special offer. Beethoven: Symphonies, Overtures & Piano Concertos
RecommendedMelvyn Tan (piano)
London Classical Players, Roger Norrington
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Gramophone Awards, 1987, Winner - Period performance
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Building a Library, January 2020, Also Recommended
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Building a Library, December 2022, Also Recommended - Beethoven 9
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Building A Library, October 2023, Recommended Period Instrument Recording
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Special offer. Beethoven: Symphony No. 3 'Eroica' & Coriolan Overture
Budapest Festival Orchestra, Iván Fischer
this is generally a fine and well-recorded performance, with a welcome degree of expressive flexibility in such moments as the opening movement’s gentle second subject. —
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Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 'Choral'
Aase Nordmo Løvberg (soprano), Christa Ludwig (mezzo-soprano), Waldemar Kmentt (tenor), Hans Hotter (bass-baritone), Philharmonia Chorus (Wilhelm Pitz chorus master), Philharmonia Orchestra, Otto Klemperer
