Previously unrecorded folksongs Hess 192 and Hess 201 come to CD, courtesy of the Celtic music group Makaris! Things are really heating up as we approach the 250th anniversary of Beethoven’s birth, and we will have more news regarding forthcoming recordings and big boxes, but we did not want this …
It’s always a great day here when we learn of a new recording of previously unheard Beethoven works. A 5-CD release of Beethoven’s complete lieder for voice and piano on the Thorofon label, CTH 2601/5 Saemtliche Lieder adds a great many new Beethoven songs to the recorded canon. These songs …
Beethoven: Anguish and Triumph, by Jan Swafford. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2014. 1077 pages. $40.00. It takes something pretty special to elbow into the crowded field of Beethoven biographies without new research and discoveries, or at least a new candidate for the Immortal Beloved. Author Jan Swafford manages just that with …
A recent CD of Beethoven piano pieces played by Tobias Koch on period instruments contains several items that will be of interest to our readers. These pieces appear to be world premiere recordings. The first of these is a familiar piece, the so-called Easy Sonata in C, WoO 51. A …