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Beethoven: String Quartets Nos. 10 & 11

Prazak Quartet

Quartets - Released January 1, 2004 | Praga Digitals

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For some, Beethoven's string quartets may seem over-performed and recorded too often, and the appearance of yet another recording may elicit only a tepid response, if not outright dismissal. But the truly jaded listeners need to give this splendid disc a try, for the Prazak Quartet offers an amazing musical experience and makes this familiar repertoire sound new, urgent, and genuinely exciting. Vol. 4 of the ensemble's recordings of Beethoven's quartets pairs two middle works, the String Quartet No. 10 in E flat major ("Harp") and the String Quartet No. 11 in F minor ("Serioso"). Both pieces are masterfully rendered, with wonderful cohesion, great sonic depth, and riveting energy, and the Prazak's interpretations are as intellectually coherent as they are emotionally compelling. Best of all, the group's sound is almost orchestral in its nuanced timbres and powerful massed sonorities, and the players' technical resources are fully exercised to provide the widest possible range of string colors. The Prazak is clearly a quartet for the digital age, and one that is well served by DSD recording. Hearing this superb ensemble in any format would be a pleasure, but Praga's hybrid SACD makes the experience all the more enjoyable. The musicians are captured with lifelike presence and the acoustics are naturally resonant. © TiVo
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Beethoven : Les quatuors, Vol.6 (No.11 & No.15)

Quatuor Végh

Quartets - Released January 1, 1986 | naïve classique

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Apotheosis. Beethoven: The Complete String Quartets III

Cuarteto Casals

Classical - Released April 10, 2020 | harmonia mundi

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After "Inventions", Apotheosis is the third and last volume in a complete set of the Beethoven quartets that breaks new ground: it aims to regroup the works according to their position within the three broad creative divisions of the composer’s life – the formative years, the ‘heroic’ period and the ‘late’ period. This programme assembles the ‘late’ quartets in a new sense, in other words those works in which the stylistic innovations of each of these creative periods reach their full flowering. © harmonia mundi
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Beethoven: String Quartet No. 11 "Serioso" / Mozart: String Quartet No. 16; Adagio & Fugue in C Minor"

Chiaroscuro Quartet

Classical - Released March 25, 2013 | Aparté

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Ludwig van Beethoven : Quatuors Op.130 & Op.133 (Grande Fugue)

Quatuor Artemis

Classical - Released April 26, 2010 | Warner Classics

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Beethoven - Mozart (Édition 5.1)

Chiaroscuro Quartet

Classical - Released March 25, 2013 | Aparté

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Beethoven Around the World: Philadelphia, String Quartets Nos 1 & 14

Quatuor Ébène

Classical - Released April 3, 2020 | Warner Classics

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Beethoven: String Quartets Vol.3

Takács Quartet

Classical - Released January 1, 2004 | Decca Music Group Ltd.

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The Great Piano Concertos: Beethoven, Chopin, Mozart, Ravel...

Martha Argerich

Concertos - Released January 6, 2023 | Warner Classics

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Beethoven: Sonatas Pathétique, Moonlight & Les adieux

Ivan Moravec

Classical - Released October 29, 2001 | Supraphon a.s.

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Radu Lupu - Complete Decca Solo Recordings

Radu Lupu

Classical - Released January 1, 2010 | Decca Music Group Ltd.

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It takes only 10 discs to contain the complete solo Decca recordings of Radu Lupu, one of the great pianists of the late 20th century. It's also amazing that these few recordings stretch over a quarter of a century, from 1971 to 1995, making Lupu one of the most infrequently recorded of the great pianists; even Argerich and Michelangeli have outdistanced him. Yet even that is not the most amazing thing about this collection; it is the performances themselves, some of which are among the greatest ever made. Has any pianist ever topped Lupu's heroic account of Brahms' F minor Sonata, or his poetic readings of the composer's late piano works? Has any ever equaled, much less surpassed, his deeply inward performances of Schubert's Moments musicaux or his two sets of Impromptus? Has any account of Beethoven's "Moonlight" Sonata ever glowed brighter, or any reading of the "Waldstein" Sonata ever been more ecstatically serene? And has any pianist ever caught the uncanny mixture of the playful, the romantic, and the diabolical in Schumann's Kreisleriana? Anyone interested in great piano playing should avail themselves of these superlative performances at their earliest possible opportunity.© TiVo
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Beethoven: Symphonies 1-9 & Overtures (Remastered HD)

Herbert von Karajan

Classical - Released March 24, 2014 | Warner Classics International

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The Karajan Official Remastered Edition is a series of remasterings, from the original master tapes, of the finest recordings the Austrian conductor made for EMI between 1946 et 1984 including Karajan's first — and probably most thrilling — recording of the complete Beethoven Symphonies, made in the early 1950s (1951-1955) with London's Philharmonia Orchestra recently founded by Walter Legge. The recording of the Ninth Symphony is available here in stereo for the very first time, taken from original, unreleased tapes.
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César Franck: Violin Sonata, Piano Trio No.1 & Piano Quintet - Vierne: Piano Quintet

Trio Wanderer

Chamber Music - Released May 26, 2023 | harmonia mundi

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French chamber music is, in general, underexposed, notwithstanding the popularity of Franck's Piano Quintet in F minor and Violin Sonata in A major. Those two works receive strong performances here from a subset and an expanded version, respectively, of the Wanderer Trio. The players capture the over-the-top quality of both works, the exceptional difficulty and range of the piano part in the sonata, and the emotional extremes of the Quintet, but what makes this double album a must for chamber music lovers is the presence of the other two works on the album, both of them much less common: the Piano Quintet in C minor, Op. 42, of Louis Vierne and Franck's Piano Trio No. 1 in F sharp minor, Op. 1, No. 1. The Vierne quintet is a revelation. The booklet makes much of Vierne's indebtedness to Franck, and indeed, Franck's cyclical procedure and his general combination of contrapuntal density with intense expressivity are present. Yet the work is wholly characteristic of Vierne. It often has the flavor of Vierne's better-known organ music (sample the Larghetto sostenuto slow movement), and it has a distinctively somber tone resulting from its origins as a memorial piece for the composer's son, dead in World War I. The Franck F sharp minor trio, one of several early Franck trios, is in a Mendelssohnian vein, but Franck's melodicism was fully present even at this early date (1839). The program as a whole sustains interest over its length, and Harmonia Mundi's sound from the Théâtre Auditorium de Poitiers is resonant and idiomatic, not damaging the players' properly extreme dynamic range. An exciting chamber music release.© James Manheim /TiVo
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Beethoven: The Complete Symphonies

Gewandhausorchester Leipzig

Classical - Released June 30, 2017 | Accentus Music

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Beethoven : Piano Sonatas (Op. 106 & Op. 27/2)

Murray Perahia

Solo Piano - Released February 9, 2018 | Deutsche Grammophon (DG)

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Oh no, no, no: this is absolutely not a re-release of one of the many recordings which Murray Perahia made of Beethoven over the decades. This here is something completely new, made in 2016 and 2017, of two radically contrasting sonatas: the Fourteenth of 1801, which Rellstab nicknamed "Clair de lune" in 1832, while Beethoven merely dubbed it Quasi una fantasia, and the Twenty Ninth of 1819, Große Sonate für das Hammerklavier, written after several barren years. Perhaps, consciously or not, Perahia has coupled two works, one "before" and the other "after" - after all, he himself has known his fair share of fallow years, following a hand injury which removed him from the stage from 1990 to 2005. Whether or not it's true, it's certainly tempting to imagine. Either way, like Beethoven, Perahia made a storming return, as shown in this recent performance, in which vigour alternates with moments of intense introspection, always impeccably phrased and articulated, and deeply musical. Clearly all those years in which he concentrated almost exclusively on the works of Bach as a training regime while he waited for recovery seem to have in fact been immensely fruitful. © SM/Qobuz