Chamber, Quintets, Beethoven (composer)
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Mozart & Beethoven - Quintets for Piano & Winds
RecommendedStephen Hough (piano)
Berlin Philharmonic Wind Quintet
The combination of Stephen Hough and wind players from the BPO makes for sparkling performances of these two quintets… It is noticeable that the Berlin horn is less plummy than the Viennese,... —
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Building a Library, April 2007, Single Disc Choice
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Beethoven & Mozart: Quintets for Piano and Wind
RecommendedWalter Gieseking, Dennis Brain
Philharmonia Wind Quartet, Philharmonia Orchestra, Herbert von Karajan
There have never been any doubts about these performances. The horn playing in the Sinfoniaconcertante is unsurpassable and in the quintets Gieseking's lightness and his clarity and sense of... —
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Building a Library, April 2007, Historic Choice
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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…the String in E flat, Op. 4… is agreeable, relaxed and undemanding… The Quintet in C major, Op. 29, … is an impressive work… sensuously appealing, and … intricate in structure… I can’t envisage... —
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The Piano Quartet… is unadulterated Beethoven - his own transcription of his Op. 16 Quintet for piano and winds, with the wind instruments replaced by a string trio. The result deserves to... —
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Special offer. Kaleidoscope - Beethoven Transcriptions
Saint-Saëns, Balakirev, Mussorgsky, Beethoven
Mari Kodama (piano)
he Saint-Saens Allegretto (from Op. 59 No. 1) comes over with a light and velvet touch and not a trace of mannerism…Most successful are Musorgsky’s deft arrangements of movements from the F... —
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BBC Music Magazine, July 2020, Instrumental Choice
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The playing sparkles. None of these pieces will challenge the intellect, but each in turn tickles the senses. —
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2015, Editor's Choice
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Building A Library, June 2021, Also Recommended - K452
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Beethoven: Piano Concertos
Jean-Efflam Bavouzet (piano), Karin Egardt (oboe), Kevin Spagnolo (clarinet), Mikael Lindström (bassoon), Terése Larsson (horn), Swedish Chamber Orchestra
This latest set in a year that threatens a surfeit of Beethoven piano concerto releases gets better as it goes along...in the grandeur, sweep and spontaneity he brings to the opening movement... —
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Mozart: Quintet K. 452 & Beethoven: Quintet Op. 16
RecommendedMurray Perahia (piano), Anthony Halstead (horn), Thea King (clarinet), Neil Black (oboe), Graham Sheen (bassoon)
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Building A Library, June 2021, Also Recommended - K452
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