It wouldn’t be a composer anniversary without an influx of new releases. We’ve already seen (and reviewed) many notable Beethoven discs in recent issues, and there are plenty more in the offing.
Fazil Say
Pianist Fazil Say follows Igor Levit with a complete set of sonatas for Warner Classics.
The best recordings of Beethoven's Hammerklavier Sonata
Peter Hill/Benjamin Frith
Peter Hill and Benjamin Frith present the composer’s works for Piano Four Hands on Delphian.
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Five of the best recordings of Beethoven's piano sonata cycles
Elizabeth Sombard
Sticking with pianists, Elizabeth Sombart joins the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra for Piano Concertos Nos 1 and 2 for Signum Classics.
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Omri & Ori Epstein
Omri Epstein duets with cellist brother Ori in a disc of cello and piano works for Linn Records.
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Brodsky Quartet
There’s further chamber music, as Chandos releases a two-disc set of Beethoven’s late quartets, performed by the Brodsky Quartet.
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The best recordings of Beethoven's Fidelio
Belcea Quartet
Alpha Classics, meanwhile, presents all of the quartets in the hands of the Belcea Quartet.
Ronald Brautigam
There are several small-but-perfectly-formed box sets on the way, including Ronald Brautigam’s recordings of the complete Variations, Bagatelles and Clavierstücke, on six discs from BIS.
Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique/Gardiner
Archiv Produktion gathers together all its Beethoven recordings by John Eliot Gardiner with his Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique – the 15-disc set includes the symphonies, concertos, a mass and a recording of Leonore.
What is the difference between a concerto and a symphony?
New York Philharmonic/Bernstein
Similar repertoire comes on Sony Classical’s ten-disc set of recordings by Leonard Bernstein and the New York Philharmonic.
Reetta Haavisto
Then there’s soprano Reetta Haavisto, who gets vocal with the Turku Philharmonic and Leif Segerstam in a programme of works for voice and orchestra on Naxos.
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