Wilhelm Backhaus

Wilhelm Backhaus Recital & Concertos

Wilhelm Backhaus (piano)

Gramophone Magazine, July 2019, Reissue/Archive of the Month

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Wilhelm Backhaus plays Schubert & Beethoven | Beethovenhalle, Bonn, 24 September 1959

Wilhelm Backhaus (piano)

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Wilhelm Backhaus: The Complete Pre-War Beethoven Recordings

Wilhelm Backhaus (piano)

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)

Gramophone Magazine, July 2026, Best-kept Secrets

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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 (piano), Robert Riefling, Eileen Joyce, Ivar Johnsen, Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli (piano), Eva Knardahl (piano), Kjell Bækkelund

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. 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

International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Historical

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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 Ammon, Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden, Wilhelm Backhaus (piano), Ana-Marija Markovina (piano), Oregon Bach Festival Women's Chorus, Oregon Bach Festival Orchestra, Karl Böhm, Reinhard Goebel, Helmuth Rilling, Unknown

Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 5 in E flat major, Op. 73 'Emperor'

Wilhelm Backhaus (piano) Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart des SWR, Joseph Keilberth

Brahms: Piano Concertos 1 & 2

Wilhelm Backhaus (piano) BBC Symphony Orchestra, Sächsische Staatskapelle, Adrian Boult, Karl Böhm

Beethoven: Concerti

Wilhelm Backhaus (piano) Wiener Philharmoniker, Stuttgart Radio Orchestra, Hans Knappertsbusch, Joseph Keilberth

Beethoven: Piano Sonatas Nos. 30, 31 & 32

Wilhelm Backhaus (piano)

Beethoven: Piano Sonatas Nos. 5, 6, 7, 8 “Pathetique”, 9 & 10

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The Last Concert

Wilhelm Backhaus (piano)

Aeolian Murmurings. Piano Evocations from the Golden Age

John Thompson with Peter Phillips, John Thompson, Vera Margolies, Sergei Prokofiev with Peter Phillips, Sergei Prokofiev, Sally Liebling with Peter Phillips, Sally Liebling, Rudolph Ganz, John Henry Powell, Gottfried Galston with Peter Phillips, Gottfried Galston, Xaver Scharwenka with Frédéric Chopin, Xaver Scharwenka, Vladimir de Pachmann with Frédéric Chopin, Vladimir de Pachmann, Ernst von Dohnányi, Carl Friedberg, Beryl Rubinstein with Peter Phillips, Beryl Rubinstein, Alexander Raab with Peter Phillips, Alexander Raab, Harold Bauer, Harold Bauer with Peter Phillips, Anatol von Rössel, Julius Röntgen, Camille Saint-Säens with Peter Phillips, Camille Saint-Säens, Robert Lortat with Peter Phillips, Robert Lortat, Maurice Ravel with Peter Phillips, Maurice Ravel, Rose Sutro & Ottilie Sutro with Peter Phillips, Rose Sutro, Ottilie Sutro, Aurelio Giorni with Peter Phillips, Aurelio Giorni, Wilhelm Backhaus, Wilhelm Backhaus with Franz Schubert, Georges Kiek, Georges Kiek with Ludwig van Beethoven, Olga Samaroff with Peter Phillips, Olga Samaroff, Cliff Hess, Peter Phillips, Charles Gilbert Spross with Peter Phillips, Charles Gilbert Spross, Guiomar Novaes, Alexander Lambert with Peter Phillips, Alexander Lambert, Frank Edgar Banta with Peter Phillips, Frank Edgar Banta, Fannie Votey Rogers with Peter Phillips, Fannie Votey Rogers, Marguerite Volavy

Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 5 in E flat major, Op. 73 'Emperor'

Wilhelm Backhaus (piano)

Wilhelm Backhaus plays Mozart

Wilhelm Backhaus (piano)

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Beethoven: Les trois dernières sonates pour piano

Rudolf Serkin, Wilhelm Kempff, Wilhelm Backhaus, Mieczyslaw Horszowski

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Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 2, Variations on an Original Theme & Variations on a Theme by Paganini

Wilhelm Backhaus (piano), Staatskapelle Dresden, Karl Böhm

Beethoven: Piano Sonatas Nos. 4, 5, 6 & 7

Wilhelm Backhaus (piano)

NKB SP Selection No. 7, Great Player 5

Alfred Cortot (piano), Wilhelm Backhaus (piano), Harold Bauer, Ossip Gabrilowitsch, Flonzaley Quartet

Danseuses De Delphes. Piano Music of Debussy, Mendelssohn and Chopin

Peter Phillips with Claude Debussy, Peter Phillips, Beryl Rubinstein, Reuben Davies, George Copeland, E. Robert Schmitz, Josef Hofmann with Peter Phillips, Josef Hofmann, Georges Kiek with Peter Phillips, Georges Kiek, Hermann Möhle with Peter Phillips, Hermann Möhle, Felix Dreyschock, Wilhelm Backhaus, Ferruccio Busoni with Peter Phillips, Ferruccio Busoni, Robert Armbruster with Peter Phillips, Robert Armbruster, P. Gayraud with Peter Phillips, P. Gayraud

Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 4

Wilhelm Backhaus (piano), Wiener Philharmoniker, Clemens Krauss

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Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 5 “Emperor”

Wilhelm Backhaus (piano), Wiener Philharmoniker, Clemens Krauss

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Bach Recital

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Carnegie Hall Recital 1954

Wilhelm Backhaus (piano)

Beethoven: Piano Sonatas | live in Berlin, 1969

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Great Pianists - Wilhelm Backhaus | Brahms - Solo Piano Works

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Beethoven: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 2

Wilhelm Backhaus (piano), Wiener Philharmoniker, Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt

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Wilhelm Backhaus plays Mozart & Brahms | Live Recording 1960

Wilhelm Backhaus (piano) Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Karl Böhm

Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 2

Wilhelm Backhaus (piano) Wiener Philharmoniker, Karl Böhm

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Beethoven - Piano Sonatas

Wilhelm Backhaus (piano)

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Beethoven: Egmont Overture, Op. 84, Piano Concerto No. 4 in G Major, Op. 58 & Symphony No. 7 in A Major, Op. 92 (Live) [Remastered 2022]

Wilhelm Backhaus (piano), Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Karl Böhm

Wilhelm Backhaus plays Mozart and Beethoven

Wilhelm Backhaus (piano) London Symphony Orchestra, Berlin Municipal Orchestra, Landon Ronald, Fritz Zaum

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Wilhelm Backhaus Plays Brahms

Wilhelm Backhaus (piano), Staatskapelle Dresden, Karl Böhm

Haydn: Piano Sonatas Nos. 34, 48 & 52; Andante con variazione: Fantasia in C Major

Wilhelm Backhaus (piano)

Aeolian Murmurings. Piano Evocations from the Golden-Age

John Thompson with Peter Phillips, John Thompson, Vera Margolies, Sergei Prokofiev with Peter Phillips, Sergei Prokofiev, Sally Liebling with Peter Phillips, Sally Liebling, Rudolph Ganz, John Henry Powell, Gottfried Galston with Peter Phillips, Gottfried Galston, Xaver Scharwenka with Frédéric Chopin, Xaver Scharwenka, Vladimir de Pachmann with Frédéric Chopin, Vladimir de Pachmann, Ernst von Dohnányi, Carl Friedberg, Beryl Rubinstein with Peter Phillips, Beryl Rubinstein, Alexander Raab with Peter Phillips, Alexander Raab, Harold Bauer, Harold Bauer with Peter Phillips, Anatol von Rössel, Julius Röntgen, Camille Saint-Säens with Peter Phillips, Camille Saint-Säens, Robert Lortat with Peter Phillips, Robert Lortat, Maurice Ravel with Peter Phillips, Maurice Ravel, Rose Sutro & Ottilie Sutro with Peter Phillips, Rose Sutro, Ottilie Sutro, Aurelio Giorni with Peter Phillips, Aurelio Giorni, Wilhelm Backhaus, Wilhelm Backhaus with Franz Schubert, Georges Kiek, Georges Kiek with Ludwig van Beethoven, Olga Samaroff with Peter Phillips, Olga Samaroff, Cliff Hess, Peter Phillips, Charles Gilbert Spross with Peter Phillips, Charles Gilbert Spross, Guiomar Novaes, Alexander Lambert with Peter Phillips, Alexander Lambert, Frank Edgar Banta with Peter Phillips, Frank Edgar Banta, Fannie Votey Rogers with Peter Phillips, Fannie Votey Rogers, Marguerite Volavy

Spring. Beethoven, Grieg & Legacy

Maurice Dambois with Peter Phillips, Maurice Dambois, Raoul Stéphane Pugno with Peter Phillips, Raoul Stéphane Pugno, Peter Phillips, Tina Lerner, Carl Reinecke, Josef Hofmann with Robert Schumann, Josef Hofmann, John Henry Powell, Gottfried Galston with Peter Phillips, Gottfried Galston, Olga Samaroff with Peter Phillips, Olga Samaroff, Julius Röntgen, Alfred Reisenauer with Robert Schumann, Alfred Reisenauer, Teresa Carreño, Rudolph Ganz, Frederic Lamond, Frederic Lamond & Manuel del Corral with Ludwig van Beethoven, Manuel del Corral, Wanda Landowska & Manuel del Corral with Ludwig van Beethoven, Wanda Landowska, Walter Kohlberg & Manuel del Corral with Ludwig van Beethoven, Walter Kohlberg, John Henry Powell with Ludwig van Beethoven, Ethel Leginska & Manuel del Corral with Ludwig van Beethoven, Ethel Leginska, Franz Ritter & Manuel del Corral with Ludwig van Beethoven, Franz Ritter, Eugen d'Albert with Peter Phillips, Eugen d'Albert, Daisy Nellis with Peter Phillips, Daisy Nellis, Uda Waldrop with Peter Phillips, Uda Waldrop, Percy Grainger, Cuthbert Whitmore, Dorothy Manley, Wilhelm Backhaus, Guiomar Novaes, Hedwig Kirsch

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The Brook. Piano Works by Stravinsky, Tchaikovsky & Chopin

Peter Phillips, McNair Ilgenfritz, Josef von Slivinski, Rudolph Reuter, Nadia Reisenberg, Ella Rafaelsohn with Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Ella Rafaelsohn, Josef Hofmann, Rose Sutro, Ottilie Sutro, Ignace Jan Paderewski, Leopold Godowsky & Manuel del Corral with Frédéric Chopin, Leopold Godowsky, Manuel del Corral, Vladimir de Pachmann, Wilhelm Backhaus, Ferruccio Busoni, Fannie Bloomfield Zeisler, Eugen d'Albert with Frédéric Chopin, Eugen d'Albert, Teresa Carreño with Frédéric Chopin, Teresa Carreño, Ossip Gabrilowitsch, Francis Plante, Alfred Cortot, Michael von Zadora, Peter Phillips & Alfred Cortot with Frédéric Chopin, Ignacy Jan Paderewski with Frédéric Chopin, Peter Phillips with Frédéric Chopin, Vladimir Horowitz (piano), Katharine Goodson with Frédéric Chopin, Katharine Goodson, Elly Ney

Beethoven: Piano Sonatas Nos. 30, 31 & 32

Wilhelm Backhaus (piano)

Potpourri

Marina de Gabaráin (mezzo-soprano), Dame Janet Baker (mezzo-soprano), Evelyn Rothwell (oboe), Victoria de los Angeles (soprano), Renata Scotto (soprano), Pat Ryan, Oliver Vella, Jascha Heifetz (violin), Eric Chadwick (organ), Jacqueline du Pré (cello), Eric Fletcher (french horn), Yehudi Menuhin (violin), Arthur Rubinstein (piano), John Ogdon (piano), Wilhelm Backhaus (piano), Hallé Orchestra, New Philharmonia Orchestra, Pro Arte Orchestra, English Chamber Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, Sinfonia of London, Teatro dell'Opera, Roma, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Wiener Philharmoniker, Orchestre de Paris, Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra of New York, Philharmonia Orchestra, New Symphony Orchestra, Sir John Barbirolli

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Great Piano Concertos

Walter Klein, Wilhelm Backhaus (piano), Stefan Askenase, Vienna Pro Musica Orchestra, Wiener Philharmoniker, Berliner Philharmoniker, Paul Angerer, Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt, Leopold Ludwig

Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 1, Piano Concerto No. 2

Wilhelm Backhaus (piano), Wiener Philharmoniker, Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt

Berceuse. Mendelssohn, Schubert & Beethoven in Time

Peter Phillips, Leopold Godowsky, Josef Hofmann with Peter Phillips, Josef Hofmann, Georges Kiek with Peter Phillips, Georges Kiek, Max Pauer with Peter Phillips, Max Pauer, Arthur Friedheim, Vladimir de Pachmann with Peter Phillips, Vladimir de Pachmann, Hermann Möhle with Peter Phillips, Hermann Möhle, Xaver Scharwenka with Peter Phillips, Xaver Scharwenka, Frieda Mackle with Franz Schubert, Frieda Mackle, Ignace Jan Paderewski, Muriel Kerr, Télémaque Lambrino with Franz Schubert, Télémaque Lambrino, Wilhelm Backhaus, Alfred Cortot, Sándor László, Wanda Landowska & Manuel del Corral with Ludwig van Beethoven, Wanda Landowska, Manuel del Corral, Frederic Lamond & Manuel del Corral with Ludwig van Beethoven, Frederic Lamond, Michael von Zadora, Fannie Bloomfield Zeisler, Fannie Bloomfield Zeisler with Peter Phillips

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Chopin: Etudes

Wilhelm Backhaus (piano)

Canto Perpetuo | Piano Trios by Shostakovich and Vasks

Boulanger Trio

Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 1, Scherzo, Ballades & Other Piano Works

Wilhelm Backhaus (piano), BBC Symphony Orchestra, Sir Adrian Boult

Dance in the rain

Wilhelm Backhaus (piano), I Musici, Philharmonia Orchestra, RCA Victor Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Stokowski Symphony Orchestra, Vienna Symphony, Sir Adrian Boult, Josef Krips, Francesco Molinari-Pradelli, Kirill Kondrashin, Leopold Stokowski, Karl Böhm

Ludwig van Beethoven: Sonaten

Wilhelm Backhaus (piano)

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Wilhelm Backhaus Plays Beethov

Beethoven/Mozart

Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 2 in B flat major, Op. 83

Wilhelm Backhaus (piano) Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart des SWR, Hans Müller-Kray

Coming soon. Beethoven: The Essentials

Friedrich Gulda (piano), Emil Gilels (piano), Josef Suk (violin), Janos Starker (cello), Rudolf Buchbinder (piano), Wilhelm Backhaus (piano), David Geringas (cello), Ian Fountain, Renate Behle (soprano), Yvonne Naef (mezzo-soprano), Glenn Winslade (tenor), Hanno Müller-Brachmann (baritone), Amanda Halgrimson, Cornelia Kallisch (mezzo-soprano), John Aler (tenor), Alastair Miles (bass), Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart des SWR, Alban Berg Quartett, Südfunk-sinfonieorchester, SWR Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden und Freiburg, Berlin Radio Choir, SWR Vokalensemble, NDR Chor, Georges Prêtre, Gary Bertini, Hans Müller-Kray, Joseph Keilberth, Michael Gielen, Sir Roger Norrington

The Essentials: Beethoven

Haydn Recital

Wilhelm Backhaus (piano)

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Endre Hegedűs (piano), Edwin Fischer (piano), Bruno-Leonardo Gelber (piano), Wilhelm Backhaus (piano), David Wilde (piano), Rolf Lindblom (piano), Géza Anda (piano), Dino Ciani (piano), Leon McCawley (piano), Claire Rutter (soprano), Matilde Wallevik (mezzo-soprano), Marta Fontanals-Simmons (mezzo-soprano), Peter Hoare (tenor), Julian Davies (tenor), Stephen Gadd (baritone), Arabella Steinbacher (violin), Ib Hausmann (clarinet), Maria Kliegel (cello), Nina Tichman (piano), James Rhodes (piano), Peter Rösel (piano), Christian Funke (violin), Jurnjakob Timm (cello), Claudia Barainsky (soprano), Gerhild Romberger (alto), Ray M. Wade Jr. (tenor), Daniel Borowski (bass) City of London Choir, Chorus Musicus Köln, Yondani Butt, Thomas Fey, Michael Halász, Hans Rosbaud, Neville Marriner, Hilary Davan Wetton, Andris Nelsons, Herbert Kegel, John Storgårds, Christoph Spering

Beethoven: Sonates pour piano (Waldstein, Pathétique, Clair de lune & Pastorale)

Lili Kraus (piano), Rudolf Serkin (piano), Aline van Barentzen, Wilhelm Backhaus (piano)

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Beethoven: Orchestral Works (Live)

Wilhelm Backhaus (piano), Wiener Philharmoniker, WDR Sinfonieorchester Köln, Sir Georg Solti

Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms & Schumann: Orchestral Works

Stefan Askenase (piano), Elly Ney (piano), Wolfgang Schneiderhan (violin), Enrico Mainardi (cello), Wilhelm Backhaus (piano) Karl Böhm

Franz Konwitschny with Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, Vol. 4 (Live)

Peter Damm (horn), Hermann Marker (horn), Werner Pilz (horn), Georg Bohner (horn), Wilhelm Backhaus (piano) Franz Konwitschny