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Beethoven - Bagatelles (6), Op. 126
Ludwig van Beethoven's Bagatelles, Op. 126 for solo piano were published late in his career, in the year 1825. Beethoven dedicated them to his brother Nikolaus Johann van Beethoven and wrote to his publisher, Schott Music, that the Opus 126 Bagatelles "are probably the best I've written".
Read more at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bagatelles,_Op._126_(Beethoven)
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This disc serves to remind us how much marvellous music Beethoven wrote where there isn’t a scowl in sight…Throughout, Paul Lewis plays with the most natural, relaxed but concentrated enjoyment,... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 10th July 2020
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2020, Editor's Choice
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BBC Music Magazine, October 2020, Instrumental Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2020
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Schiff's passion for this music, and his ability to communicate it, is apparent in every bar...The two instruments he plays each have a lean tone and the interpretation of the Diabellis doesn't... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2013, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2014, Shortlisted - Instrumental
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Building a Library, June 2017, Also Recommended
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His playing is immaculately polished, but here he misses something of the arresting brusqueness, heartfelt lyricism, madcap zaniness, and tender melancholy...Osborne's most expressive playing... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2012, Editor's Choice
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Beethoven: Lieder & Bagatellen
Christoph Berner (fortepiano J. B. Streicher, 1847), Werner Güra (tenor)
Güra's noble and beautifully enunciated tenor recreates the sheer energy and spiritual struggle within the microcosm of Beethoven's songs…Berner's 1847 Streicher fortepiano captures well the... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, December 2015, Choral & Song Choice
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2016, Vocal Finalist
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2015, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2016, Finalist - Solo Vocal
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His readings have the easy authority of one who has no difficulty in tracing the composer's most casual thoughts, even if he does not always follow his instructions to the letter. Brendel shows... — More…
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Building a Library, September 2004, First Choice
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Building a Library, September 2004, Highly Recommended
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With Williams…expressiveness is all. He paradoxically achieves this through emotional restraint, and in a style which you might call ‘plain’, but which allows the individual character of each... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, August 2018, Recording of the Month
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Gramophone Awards, 2010, Winner - Historic Archive
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[the Hammerklavier] has received several amazing recordings in recent years, and Nelson Goerner’s is one of them. It is also a highly individual though never quirky account — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2016, Editor's Choice
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Stephen Kovacevich plays Beethoven
RecommendedStephen Kovacevich (formally Bishop) (piano)
BBC Symphony Orchestra & London Symphony Orchestra, Sir Colin Davis
Stephen Kovacevich's recent Beethoven sonata cycle for EMI (reviewed May 2004) achieves arguably the most convincing Beethoven style of any pianist since Schnabel, and these 1970s recordings... — More…
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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