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Before Felix Mendelssohn produced his Octet for strings in 1825, only Louis Spohr had composed for a similar combination of instruments. Rather than an octet, however, Spohr's work was a 'double quartet' written for two equal but independent string...

Before coming to Sweden, the Italian-born harpsichordist Anna Paradiso knew little about Johan Helmich Roman, often called 'the father of Swedish music'. Here she soon realized that if Roman's music was Swedish, it was also Italian - and specifically...

Before coming to Sweden, the Italian-born harpsichordist Anna Paradiso knew little about Johan Helmich Roman, often called "the father of Swedish music". Here she soon realized that if Roman's music was Swedish, it was also Italian and specifically...

Beethoven's Sonata, Op. 23 in A minor seems to portray the darker side of love, it's unfulfillment, whereas the later Op. 24, the so-called spring sonata - as a sort of characterization of a loving heart's feeling of spring - references the sweet,...

Beethoven's gifted pupil Ferdinand Ries was never entirely forgotten, but it is only in recent years that cpo and Hermann Max dedicated themselves with great success to the rediscovery of this spirited late classicist and romanticist. His oratorio Der...

Beethoven's five sonatas for violoncello and piano form a cosmos all of their own. They exemplarily represent this Titan's three compositional periods, and the interrelations between them shape a surprisingly self-contained work group surveying the...

Beethoven's Five Great Piano Concertos Give Evidence Not Only of Outstanding Pianistic Skills, But Also of An Iron Will with Regard to Taking Great Strides Forward in Their Composition. Now You Can Indulge in Beethoven's Piano Concerto Nos. 3 & 5 in the...

Beethoven: Piano Concertos released in July on three MQA-UHQCD discs, is now available in a limited release that includes three SA-CD discs, one Blu-ray audio disc, and one Blu-ray video disc. Multi-case version. [Krystian Zimerman (piano), Sir Simon...

Beethoven was Wilhelm Furtw?ngler's guiding musical force. In his interpretations of the symphonies, the conductor generates irresistible dramatic momentum - and a constant sense of imaginative freshness - through the interrelationship of form, harmony,...

Beethoven is not the only one this year. Johann Christian Heinrich Rinck is also celebrating the 250th anniversary of his birth in 2020. During his lifetime Rinck was highly esteemed and showered with honors, but today his music has been almost...

Beethoven began composing the Missa solemnis in 1819, when he learned that his patron (and pupil) Archduke Rudolph was going to be appointed Cardinal Archbishop of Olmutz. The plan was for the mass to be ready for performance at the enthronement...

Beethoven - German identity, high culture, a myth. The crossover formation Uwaga! And the Folkwang Kammerorchester dedicate their second joint project to the composer. The musicians, united in curiosity and openness as well as the desire to try out new...