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Someone who really understands Beethoven (Pizzicato)

For the ninth installment in haenssler CLASSIC's new budget series "Premium Composers", we've assembled a collection of Beethoven's most beautiful and popular piano sonatas. Included is the timeless "Moonlight" Sonata, the "Pathetique" and the witty "Les Adieux". This collection is an exceptional value, making available selections from Gerhard Oppitz's critically acclaimed complete edition at a budget price for the very first time.

'Con brio' is an instruction in Beethoven's works that is not uncommon, and awakening the invoked "fire" is one of the challenges for interpreters of the composer's early works. The Duo Alexander calls their new recording of works for violoncello and piano 'Feuerfarbe' (Fire Color) in the style of a Beethoven contemporary from Bonn. Here the two musicians truly bring fire to the album. The duo is considered the smallest chamber music unit: an exchange between two equal partners, a constant musical dialogue with simultaneous soloist demands on both players. Alexander Scherf (cello) and Alexander Puliaev (pianoforte) have dedicated themselves to this task. Based on the sound spectrum of their historical instruments, the duo Alexander has developed a repertoire that includes not only the fixed star Beethoven but also reaches into romanticism to Mendelssohn and Chopin.

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A truly personal and idiomatic performance of the gigantic Diabelli Variations played by the Danish pianist Christina Bjorkoe, already world famous for her recordings of music by Danish composers Nielsen and Gade for the German record company cpo. Listen to her beautifully recorded and very stunning Beethoven.

This collection of classical favorites of Beethoven's work serves as a compilation of his famous works made available by Melbourne Symphony Orchestra; Nicolaus Esterhazy Sinfonia and Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra accompanied by a host of renowned classical talent.

German pianist Georg Friedrich Schenck, a pianist of colossal power and scope, gained an international reputation as teacher of an unorthodox "Creative Interpretation Technique," which resulted in stunning results (international prize winner Evgeny Bozhanov is a student of Schenck). Schenck (born in 1953) studied with Claudio Arrau and Andre Watts. He recorded the complete Beethoven piano sonatas and complete piano works of Brahms. His interpretation of Beethoven's notoriously difficult Hammerklavier sonata adheres to the original metronome marks of Beethoven, and is a revelation of Beethoven's ideas and spirit.

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