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Editor’s Choice: The Best New Classical Music Albums, August 2020
The choices of the best classical music albums we covered on The Classic Review the past month.
Beethoven
Album Reviews
Review: Grigory Sokolov Plays Beethoven, Brahms, Mozart
Deutsche Grammophon presents a set of two CDs and one DVD of Grigory Sokolov in live performances of Sonatas and shorter pieces by Beethoven, Brahms and Mozart.
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Review: Beethoven – Complete Bagatelles – Paul Lewis, Piano
After recording the complete Piano Sonatas and Concertos, Paul Lewis turns to the shorter form of the Bagatelle, in a new recording for Harmonia Mundi.
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Review: Beethoven – Symphony No. 9, Choral Fantasy – Bezuidenhout, Heras-Casado
Pablo Heras-Casado conducts the Freiburger Barockorchester in Beethoven "choral" Symphony. Kristian Bezuidenhout joins for the Choral Fantasy.
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Review: Beethoven – Symphonies 1-3 – Britten Sinfonia, Adès
Composer, pianist and conductor Thomas Adès leads the Britten Sinfonia in Beethoven’s first three Symphonies, with two compositions by composer Gerald Barry.
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Review: Beethoven – String Quartets No. 13, 15 – Tetzlaff Quartet
The Tetzlaff Quartet perform Beethoven's late String Quartets, No. 13, Op. 130 and No. 15, Op. 132 (Ondine Records, 2020)
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Review: Beethoven – Complete Piano Concertos – Stewart Goodyear
Stewart Goodyear in a new Beethoven Piano Concertos cycle with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales under Andrew Constantine.
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Review: Beethoven – Songs – Matthias Goerne, Jan Lisiecki
Baritone Matthias Goerne and pianist Jan Lisiecki perform Beethoven songs.
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Review: Beethoven – Symphony No. 6 (“Pastoral”) – Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin
The Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin and its Concertmaster Bernhard Forck present two orchestral pieces which depicts nature - Beethoven's "Pastoral" Symphony and Knecht's "Le portrait musical de…
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Review: Beethoven – Piano Trios – Renaud and Gautier Capuçon, Frank Braley
Renaud and Gautier Capuçon with pianist Frank Braley perform Beethoven's "Ghost" and "Archduke" piano trios. (Erato, 2020).