Beethoven Awareness Month 2012
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25 Essential Beethoven Recordings: The Late Quartets
Beethoven was a constant companion for this quartet over its 44-year ride, starting in the 1960s when it released a complete cycle for RCA.
Nov 17, 2012 -
About The String Quartet Marathon Performers
Each of the string ensembles on the Beethoven String Quartet Marathon shared some of their thoughts on the pieces they are playing and about what Beethoven means to them.
Nov 16, 2012 -
25 Essential Beethoven Recordings: The Violin Concerto
Itzhak Perlman recorded the Beethoven Violin Concerto in 1981, when he was in his breathtaking playing prime. Everything is melody in this sprightly and lyrical interpretation.
Nov 15, 2012 -
Beethoven and Michelangelo: Colossal Utopianism
"Michelangelo is to art what Beethoven is to music," writes Fred Plotkin. "Beethoven’s music is so life-affirming and we get a sense of the greatness of human potential in his musi... Nov 13, 2012
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25 Essential Beethoven Recordings: Missa Solemnis
This recording of Beethoven's choral masterpiece was made in the very week the Berlin Wall came down, and as conductor John Eliot Gardiner later maintained, that seemed to heighten... Nov 12, 2012
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Tributes to a Constellation of American Individualists
Composer-pianist Jed Distler returns to host a week of wide-ranging keyboard(s) repertoire, including tributes to the late Elliott Carter and Aaron Copland and obscure recordings from... Nov 12, 2012
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25 Essential Beethoven Recordings: The Early Quartets
We continue our ongoing look at the 25 essential Beethoven albums with the Berlin-based Artemis Quartet, which plays the Op. 18 quartets with youthful panache and Germanic rigor.
Nov 12, 2012 -
Walking with Beethoven
On this episode of All Ears, Terrance McKnight gets into the spirit of Beethoven Awareness Month on WQXR by featuring some of the composer's andantes for piano and orchestra.
Nov 10, 2012 -
25 Essential Beethoven Recordings: The Triple Concerto
The Soviet parternship of Sviatoslav Richter, Mstilav Rostropovich and David Oistrakh came together with the Berlin Philharmonic and conductor Herbert von Karajan in 1969 for Beethoven's Triple Concerto.
Nov 10, 2012 -
The 25 Essential Beethoven Recordings: Symphonies Nos. 5 & 7
It's pretty much the consensus view that these are the greatest modern recordings of the two symphonies.
Nov 9, 2012