|
Beethoven: The Violin Sonatas / Mutter, Orkis
|
Ludwig van Beethoven(Composer), et al
Usually ships in 24 hours
Click here for more information
|
List Price: $61.97
Our Price: $58.87
You Save: $3.10
(5%)
|
Amazon.com essential recording
This complete cycle of Beethoven violin sonatas was recorded during a series of live performances in 1998. Mutter devoted the entire year, together with her partner, Lambert Orkis, to an extensive global tour focused on these works, and the accounts are infused with a sense of cross-connection, expressive freedom, and depth of insight acquired from such prolonged concentration. It shows Mutter in full maturity, commanding the artistic confidence to take risks and imprint her intensely personal...Read more
|
|
|
Beethoven: Piano Trios Vol 4 / Stuttgart Piano Trio
|
Ludwig van Beethoven(Composer), et al
Usually ships in 2-3 days
Click here for more information
|
Our Price: $5.97
|
Amazon.com essential recording
The Archduke is Beethoven's most popular piano trio, and one of his greatest "middle period" works. There's an image that persists of Beethoven as the composer of one long, heaven-storming, fist-shaking musical temper tantrum. Works like the Fifth Symphony and the Pathetique Piano Sonata add fuel to this fire. But that was only one side of Beethoven's character. He was also a composer of grandly expansive music of almost cosmic serenity, and in pieces like the Violin Concerto, the Fourth Piano...Read more
|
|
|
Beethoven: Late String Quartets / Guarneri Quartet
|
Ludwig van Beethoven(Composer), Guarneri String Quartet(Orchestra)
Usually ships in 2-3 days
Click here for more information
|
List Price: $31.97
Our Price: $30.37
You Save: $1.60
(5%)
|
Amazon.com essential recording
The Guarneri Quartet has forgotten more about the late quartets of Beethoven than most other ensembles will ever know. They understand the profound lyrical impulse behind these works, and they manage the paradoxical feat of imparting a sublime sense of inevitability to the music while achieving spontaneity at the same time. The interpretations serve the music admirably, though the sound is somewhat veiled. Although the set is rather awkwardly laid out--Op. 127 is split between two discs, and the...Read more
|
|
|
|
Beethoven: The String Quartets / Quartetto Italiano
|
Ludwig van Beethoven(Composer), et al
Usually ships in 24 hours
Click here for more information
|
List Price: $67.97
Our Price: $64.57
You Save: $3.40
(5%)
|
A reviewer, October 7, 2000 
Musically and technically inspired
I just finished listening to Opus 59 No. 1 and had to write. This is one of the greatest recordings of the one of the greatest quartets played by one of the greatest quartets I have ever heard. Perhaps the greatest. The Quartetto Italiano had the perfect intonation, phrasing, tone, and dynamics that one expects from a modern quartet (they performed from 1945 to 1981), but their musical intelligence, their sense of line, and their intense and continuous concentration was extraordinary. I listened...Read more
|
|
Chamber