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Austrian composer
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2023-12-07 05:00:00
Beethoven: Diabelli Variations (Edmund Battersby)
Ludwig van Beethoven (1779-1827)32 Variations on a Theme by Diabelli, Op. 120Edmund Battersby, Fortepiano(Period Instruments)Naxos 8.557384-85 (2005) 2-Disc setBattersby recorded this work on both Piano and Fortepiano. The modern Piano holds no interest for me so I did not bother to rip that disc. Please do not ask me to rip it as this is not going to happen. [Flac & Scans]
2022-07-28 05:22:00
Piano Potpourri, No. 7 (CD reviews)
[…] the rigors of repeated listening. The album includes rags that will appeal to a broad spectrum of attitudes and emotions, from sad to glad and trad to rad and plenty of shades in between. Even for those unfamiliar with ragtime or stride piano, the piano rags of Bolcom as played by Hamelin and recorded by Judith Sherman and crew would be a great place to start. Beethoven: 33 Variations Op. 120 on a Waltz by Diabelli. Mitsuko Uchida, piano. Decca 485 2731.Last week’s New Releases No. 33 included a review of an ECM New Series CD by the Danish String Quartet that featured a performance of one of Beethoven’s late quartets. If you are familiar with those works, you know that they are both beautiful and sublime, at times seeming to originate from some realm almost beyond human comprehension, a world of timeless beauty with which Beethoven was somehow able […]
2022-07-23 00:24:04
The French-born, Italian-based pianist Muriel Chemin follows up her 2017 Beethoven Diabelli Variations release with nothing less than a complete cycle of the composer’s 32 piano sonatas. Chemin’s serious-minded interpretations fall somewhere between Wilhelm Kempff’s intimately scaled conceptions and the rhetorical style of Claudio Arrau. Tempos tend toward moderation (which partially explains the cycle’s 10-disc […]
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