Editorial Product Review: essential recording:By general consensus, Herbert von Karajan's first (1963) Beethoven cycle for Deutsche Grammophon is the best of the four (!) that he recorded. The Berlin Philharmonic was in top form, and they had not yet made an artistic fetish out of the bland smoothness that typified the conductor's later recordings of this music (and just about everything else). Karajan's squeaky clean, emotionally cool Beethoven will always be something of an acquired taste, but this set makes the best possible case for it. --David Hurwitz
Editorial Product Review:Album Description:There are few living pianists so well-known and with such legendary status as Evgeny Kissin. A former child prodigy, Kissin came to international attention in March 1984 when, at the age of twelve, he performed Chopin's Piano Concertos 1 & 2 with the Moscow State Philharmonic. Since then he has gone on to win countless prizes and plaudits. He now brings his considerable talents to Beethoven's five magnificent piano concertos, recording them for the first time as a complete cycle.
Editorial Product Review:Album Description:There are few living pianists so well-known and with such legendary status as Evgeny Kissin. A former child prodigy, Kissin came to international attention in March 1984 when, at the age of twelve, he performed Chopin's Piano Concertos 1 & 2 with the Moscow State Philharmonic. Since then he has gone on to win countless prizes and plaudits. He now brings his considerable talents to Beethoven's five magnificent piano concertos, recording them for the first time as a complete cycle.
Editorial Product Review: :András Schiff s Beethoven cycle, recorded live in chronological order at Tonhalle Zurich, continues to collect critical praise as it moves forward to thelater middle period. Volume VI, including sonatas from the periodbetween 1804 and 1810, offers some of the most famous and widely-known works together with an astonishing variety of forms and concepts, aconstellation which, once again, highlights the attractiveness of Schiff s chronological approach.
Editorial Product Review: :András Schiff s Beethoven cycle, recorded live in chronological order at Tonhalle Zurich, continues to collect critical praise as it moves forward to thelater middle period. Volume VI, including sonatas from the periodbetween 1804 and 1810, offers some of the most famous and widely-known works together with an astonishing variety of forms and concepts, aconstellation which, once again, highlights the attractiveness of Schiff s chronological approach.
Editorial Product Review: :András Schiff s Beethoven cycle, recorded live in chronological order at Tonhalle Zurich, continues to collect critical praise as it moves forward to thelater middle period. Volume VI, including sonatas from the periodbetween 1804 and 1810, offers some of the most famous and widely-known works together with an astonishing variety of forms and concepts, aconstellation which, once again, highlights the attractiveness of Schiff s chronological approach.
Editorial Product Review:Album Description:Dinnerstein chose this program because of how the pieces speak to each another, and because of their relationship to the music of Bach. 'My hope with this concert was to program a group of pieces that would contrast with and relate to each other, despite being separated by hundreds of years,' she explains. 'So much music written since Bach has been influenced by him, and the Beethoven and the Lasser recorded here are no exceptions. Philip Lasser's variations on the very dark Bach chorale, Nimm von uns, Herr, du treuer Gott ...
