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Beethoven Septet & Eroica

Claire Huangci

Classical - Released March 3, 2023 | Berlin Classics

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Vers la flamme: Works by Beethoven, Messiaen, Scriabin, Strauss

Severin von Eckardstein

Classical - Released October 6, 2023 | CAvi-music

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Beethoven: Violin Concerto, Op. 61, Septet, Op. 20 & Variations on Folk Songs, Op. 105 & 107

Leonidas Kavakos

Classical - Released October 18, 2019 | Sony Classical

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The violinist Leonidas Kavakos has many strings to his bow: an acclaimed soloist, he conducts orchestras – his first love – and is a chamber musician. This double album bears witness to the skills of this musical polymath who knows his Beethoven. He functions here both as soloist and conductor of the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, which boasts over 60 musicians. In line with the practices of the composer's lifetime, this choice highlights the "egalitarian" style of the concerto's writing. While a virtuoso piece for sure, this score is more than just a pedestal for the soloist: the latter works closely with their peers, and shares every theme with them. Leonidas Kavakos gives a magisterial performance at the head of this impressive orchestra and brings forth some sumptuous nuances from the players, commanding their sustained and close attention. Heir to Viennese Classicism, Beethoven opened the way to the Concertos of Brahms or Sibelius, in which the solo violin often accompanies the orchestra with acrobatic embellishments. As agile as he was at the start of his career, the soloist doesn't perform Kreisler's famous cadence, but rather brings to life what Beethoven published for piano. This moment of complicity with the orchestra continues in camera in the Septet, Op. 20, the first score of the kind, in which the musicians sound like a small orchestra; and then finally in the 6 National Airs with Variations, Op. 105 for piano and flute (or violin ad libitum). Commissioned by a Scottish publisher when Beethoven was composing his Ninth Symphony, these miniatures for amateurs sound just as fresh as their dancing melodies. A very fine record which shows Beethoven in a less stormy light than usual. © Elsa Siffert/Qobuz
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Beethoven: Piano Sonatas, Vol. 1

Bruno Leonardo Gelber

Classical - Released January 1, 1988 | Denon

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Diabelli Variations - 33 Variations on a Waltz by Anton Diabelli, Op. 120

Igor Levit

Classical - Released November 4, 2016 | Sony Classical

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Vers la flamme: Works by Beethoven, Messiaen, Scriabin, Strauss

Severin von Eckardstein

Classical - Released October 6, 2023 | CAvi-music

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Beethoven: Septet; Octet. Mendelssohn/Schubert: Octets

Melos Ensemble

Classical - Released May 30, 1997 | Warner Classics

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Beethoven: Variations Diabelli - Schubert: Fantaisie Wanderer

Laurent Cabasso

Classical - Released October 10, 2011 | naïve classique

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The Complete Beethoven Piano Concertos

Garrick Ohlsson

Classical - Released May 12, 2023 | Reference Recordings

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Musical careers last longer than they used to, and here, it is difficult to detect any weakening of the long-impressive technique of pianist Garrick Ohlsson, 74 years old, when this album was recorded in the summer of 2022. The feat is especially impressive in that all five of the Beethoven concertos (plus the Overture to The Creatures of Prometheus, Op. 43, with no piano) were performed live within a single week. Ohlsson is backed by the Grand Teton Music Festival Orchestra under the direction of veteran conductor Donald Runnicles, who points out that he and Ohlsson had very little discussion about interpretation prior to the performances. It is here that Ohlsson's expertise is evident. He doesn't blaze any new paths in these works, but one has the feeling that he holds the performances, to borrow a phrase from John Le Carré, like a thrush's egg in his hand. His readings are simple in the best way. Sample the arresting opening of the first movement of the Piano Concerto No. 4 in G major, Op. 58; it is direct, yet there are micro shapings that bespeak long familiarity. In fact, it is in the first two concertos, where the lengthy expositions make it less possible for Ohlsson to control the flow of events, that are less effective. The partnership between Ohlsson and the orchestra, though, is lively throughout, and Runnicles gets excellent results from what is likely essentially a pickup group; the orchestra is moderately sized and agile. Superb live recording from Reference Recordings, discussed in detail in the booklet, is another draw. © James Manheim /TiVo
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Beethoven: Diabelli Variations

Mitsuko Uchida

Classical - Released April 8, 2022 | Decca Music Group Ltd.

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The late Beethoven recordings of pianist Mitsuko Uchida have been career makers, and it is cause for celebration that she has capped them with the 33 Variations on a Waltz by Diabelli, Op. 120, a work that perhaps poses deeper interpretive challenges than any of the late sonatas. The Variations often show a kind of rough humor, and a performer may pick up on that, or the player may deemphasize the humor and seek out the epic qualities of the Piano Sonata No. 30 in E major, Op. 109, and Piano Sonata No. 32 in C minor, Op. 111. Uchida does neither. The outlines of her usual style, high-contrast and a bit dry, are apparent, but she does not let them dominate her reading. What Uchida realizes is that the abrupt transition from humor to the deepest existential ruminations is part and parcel of Beethoven's late style, and she works to hone the particular character of each Beethoven variation. Her left hand, as usual, is strikingly powerful, and this brings out many striking details (consider the stirring variation 16). The trio of slow minor variations toward the end are given great seriousness but are not in the least overwrought; Uchida achieves an elusive Olympian tone through the final variations. There is much more to experience here, for each variation is fully thought out, but suffice it to say that this is one of the great performances of the Diabelli Variations.© TiVo
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Martha Argerich Performs Beethoven and Ravel

Martha Argerich

Concertos - Released March 24, 2023 | 2023 Avanticlassic

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Martha Argerich, the ageless Argentine, was approaching her 80th birthday when these live recordings were made in Israel in 2019, but it is hard to hear any diminution of her powers. Israel Philharmonic conductor Lahav Shani pushes her with quick tempos in the passagework of the Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 2 in B flat major, Op. 19, and she interacts with him very closely here and in the first movement of the Ravel Piano Concerto in G major, where the blues aspect is deemphasized in favor of keeping things moving. Really, despite the presence of the star Argerich, this is Shani's concert. By 2023, when this album was released, Shani was preparing to take the reins at the Munich Philharmonic and was generally accounted as one of the hottest young conductors on the scene. Those following his career may find this release useful in terms of understanding how he began to get people's attention in the first place. His readings are original. The Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 2 in his hands is quite original, avoiding Haydn's playfulness in favor of a drive and edge that points directly toward the middle-period Beethoven. The central movement of the Ravel is unusually contemplative, and the finale seems exuberant when it arrives. The live recording from the Charles Bronfman Auditorium in Tel Aviv is reasonably clear, and there is a certain electricity to the results; vigorous applause is retained at the end. An intriguing document from Argerich's late career and Shani's early one.© James Manheim /TiVo
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Beethoven: Symphony No. 3 "Eroica" & Coriolan Overture

Iván Fischer

Classical - Released April 5, 2024 | Channel Classics

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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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Beethoven: Complete Sonatas and Variations for Cello and Piano

Gary Hoffman

Chamber Music - Released September 29, 2023 | La Dolce Volta

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Beethoven: Symphonies Nos 4 & 5

National Symphony Orchestra, Kennedy Center

Symphonies - Released May 19, 2023 | National Symphony Orchestra

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The early reviews on conductor Gianandrea Noseda's tenure with the National Symphony Orchestra in Washington are good, and it may be that he will become as familiar a figure in the U.S. as he is across the pond. He has recording projects underway devoted to the contrasting figures of Beethoven and George Walker, and these have been positively reviewed. This live recording (no audience noise or applause) of Beethoven's Symphony No. 4 in B flat major, Op. 60, and Symphony No. 5 in C minor, Op. 67, offers fine examples of Noseda's rigorous yet eminently crowd-pleasing style. The Symphony No. 5 opens with a strikingly short pair of fermatas in the famed "Fate" motif, and the forward motion thus propelled never really lets up. The first movement is impressively concentrated and exciting, although by the time the finale is reached, one has a bit of a feeling that there is no higher level to go to. However, Noseda's slow movements are elegant, and there are signs that he is getting a more beautiful sound out of his large string section than has been heard in some time. At times (hear the beginning of the Symphony No. 4 Scherzo), that string sound falls victim to Kennedy Center's indifferent (and much-tinkered-with) acoustics, but this is a satisfying Beethoven recording from a conductor emerging as one of the world's best.© 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: Symphonies Nos. 1-9 (Live)

Malmö Symphony Orchestra

Classical - Released June 5, 2020 | Ondine

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How intriguing! American conductor Robert Treviño has dedicated his debut release with Ondine to Beethoven’s symphony cycle. This is the first time the Finnish label has visited these landmarks of Western symphonic culture with a traditional Scandinavian orchestra, namely the Malmö Symphony Orchestra, which will celebrate its centenary in 2025. With a rather faded palette of sound-colour and a smooth legato, this is undoubtedly a traditional version of the nine symphonies that transports us back to an era of discographies from Herbert von Karajan and Otto Klemperer. But by no means does it belong in the past…Treviño has worked closely with the likes of Leif Segerstam, David Zinman and Michael Tilson Thomas, the two latter conductors having, incidentally, made many interventions of their own in the Beethovenian symphonies as each attempted to produce worthy reinterpretations. Tilson Thomas drastically reduced the number of musicians in his complete cycle for CBS, whilst David Zinman based his work on Jonathan Del Mar’s Barenreiter edition which restored many of the lost accents and phrases that had been altered from one hundred and fifty years of, at times, rather unscrupulous interpretations. Here, Robert Treviño’s interpretations are lyrical and rich, precise as regards polyphony and mindful of the need to find a balance rather than overstress the text. Treviño ensures that each section finds its proper place and doesn’t get lost in the overall composition, creating dialogues with a chamber-like aesthetic. The unusual “concertato” at the beginning of the last movement of Eroica is the prime example of this. © Pierre-Yves Lascar/Qobuz
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Beethoven: The 9 Symphonies by Herbert von Karajan

Herbert von Karajan

Classical - Released May 29, 2023 | Alexandre Bak - Classical Music Reference Recording

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Beethoven: Complete 35 Piano Sonatas

Tamami Honma

Classical - Released February 9, 2024 | Divine Art

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Beethoven: Complete Symphonies & Concertos

The Netherlands Symphony Orchestra

Classical - Released October 9, 2020 | Challenge Classics