Penguin Rosettes, Beethoven (composer)
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an essential recommendation for any collection. These are performances which seem to present a Beethoven 'for the ages', a distillation of a long interpretative tradition, without concern for... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, 100 Greatest Recordings
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Building a Library, October 1999, First Choice
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Building a Library, October 2007, First Choice
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Building a Library, January 2016, First Choice
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Presto Favourites, Recommended Recording
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Presto Greatest Recordings of the 1970s
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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In Carlos Kleiber's hands the first movement of the Fifth is electrifying, yet still has a underlying hushed intensity...In the Seventh the symphonic argument never yields to the charm of the... — More…
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Presto Greatest Recordings of the 1970s
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Tchaikovsky: 1812 Overture & Capriccio Italian Recommendedspoken commentary by Deems Taylor
Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra & University of Minnesota Brass Band, London Symphony Orchestra, Antal Dorati
it sounds even more spectacular than it did in its vinyl format, vividly catching Beethoven's musical picture of armies clashing. — More…
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Herbert von Karajan - 100th Anniversary Collection
RecommendedElisabeth Schwarzkopf (soprano), Marga Höffgen (contralto), Ernst Haefliger (tenor) & Otto Edelmann (baritone)
Philharmonia Orchestra & Chor der Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde, Herbert von Karajan
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Beethoven & Mozart: Quintets for Piano and Wind
RecommendedWalter Gieseking, Dennis Brain
Philharmonia Wind Quartet, Philharmonia Orchestra, Herbert von Karajan
There have never been any doubts about these performances. The horn playing in the Sinfoniaconcertante is unsurpassable and in the quintets Gieseking's lightness and his clarity and sense of... — More…
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Building a Library, April 2007, Historic Choice
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Beethoven - Symphony No. 4
RecommendedLeon Spierer (solo violin)
Berliner Philharmoniker, Herbert von Karajan
For anyone lucky enough to have secured a ticket few orchestral concerts have remained so vividly in the memory as the one given by Karajan's incomparable Berlin Philharmonic in London's Royal... — More…
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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