Wilhelm Backhaus
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2018, Archive/Re-Issue of the Month
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Diapason d’Or, January 2019, Collectionneur
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Special offer. Wilhelm Backhaus plays Schubert & Beethoven
Beethovenhalle, Bonn, 24 September 1959
Wilhelm Backhaus (piano)
His concert begins with Schubert’s Impromptu No.3 in B flat major from the D.935 set. There is such facility and tonal lustre here, and a dappled, songful lightness propelled by the deftest... —
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Backhaus's own transcriptions of the Serenade from Don Giovanni and the E flat Marche militaire of Schubert warrant pride of place…Technical display, as it were, is almost hidden, so that the... —
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2019, Reissue/Archive of the Month
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Bach - Piano Transcriptions Volume 1
Selected works including Toccata and Fugue in D Minor BWV 565 and more
Sergey Rachmaninov, Alfred Cortot, Winifred Christie, Ethel Bartlett, Rae Robertson, Olga Samaroff, George Copeland, Harriet Cohen, Alexander Kelberine, Walter Gieseking, Wilhelm Backhaus, Byron Janis, Artur Rubinstein (all piano)
This grand transcription may forever be associated with Vladimir Horowitz's 1965 historic return, yet his rival Arthur Rubinstein arguably played it better for one of his least discussed and... —
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2026, Best-kept Secrets
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The very personification of good musical judgement, especially in Beethoven. This is big playing, impulsive at times but never contrived. Also included is an Emperor Concerto under Joseph Keilberth... —
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2019, Reissue/Archive of the Month
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Edvard Grieg: The Piano Music in Historic Interpretations
Ronald Landon, Edvard Grieg, Percy Grainger, Arthur De Greef, Johanne Stockmarr, Fridtjof Backer-Grøndahl, Wilhelm Backhaus (piano), Josef Hofmann (piano), Rudolf Ganz, Sergey Rachmaninov (piano), Moritz Meyer-Mahr, Olga Samaroff, Una Bourne (piano), Harold Bauer, Mary Barratt-Due, Walter Gieseking...
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Wilhelm Backhaus: The Complete Acoustic and Selected Early Electric Recordings
Wilhelm Backhaus (piano), Royal Albert Hall Orchestra, New Symphony Orchestra, Landon Ronald, Sir John Barbirolli
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Special offer. Classical Dreams
Berlin Barock Solisten (early music ensemble), Dora Deliyska (piano), Jörg Widmann (clarinet), Gabriel Adorján (violin), Lena Neudauer (violin), Amihai Grosz (viola), David Adorján, Rahel Rilling, Isabel Charisius, Guy Ben-Ziony, Martin Menking, Martin Funda, Sara Rilling, Stefan Heinemeyer, Jacques...
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Special offer. Beethoven, Mozart & Others: Piano Works
Wilhelm Backhaus (piano), Wiener Philharmoniker, New York Philharmonic, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Tokyo Symphony Orchestra, Karl Böhm, Carl Schuricht, Guido Cantelli, Ferenc Fricsay, Masashi Ueda
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Historical
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