Beethoven: Complete Works for Cello and Piano (Including the variations)

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LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Complete Works for Cello and Piano (Including the variations)
Adrian Brendel (cello) Alfred Brendel (piano)

[ Decca Records / 2 CD ]

Release Date: Tuesday 7 December 2004

This item is only available to us via Special Import.

"The Brendel family values: eloquence, energy and sheer joy in music-making" - "The Brendel family values: eloquence, energy and sheer joy in music-making" - Editor's Choice Gramophone Magazine March 2005

- Editor's Choice Gramophone Magazine March 2005

"The Brendel family values: eloquence, energy and sheer joy in music-making. Adrian and Alfred Brendel, a team that has been performing these works in concert for quite some time."
(Gramophone)

"Often what Adrian does is what I imagine I would do if I played a stringed instrument"
Alfred Brendel in The Guardian (London) June 2004

Two generations of one family come together to record Beethoven's complete works for cello and piano. Cellist Adrian Brendel and his father, the legendary Alfred Brendel, join forces for particularly touching performances of these rich and varied works, which they have recently performed together on the concert stage to rapturous critical acclaim...

"I cannot recall the slow movement sounding more hauntingly beautiful, Adrian's Stradivarius pouring forth such abundant sound. And for once, the final fugue, played so delicately, made absolute structural sense. The Brendels' forthcoming Beethoven recordings should be extremely impressive."
andante.com on Beethoven's final sonata at the Wigmore Hall recital, June 2004

Tracks:

CD1
Beethoven Sonata No.2 in G minor op.5 no.2

Beethoven Sonata no.4 in C op.102, no.1

Beethoven Sonata No.3 in A, op.69

Beethoven 12 Variations on "Ein Mädchen oder Weibchen" from Die Zauberflöte, Op 66

CD2
Beethoven 12 Variations on "See the conqu'ring hero comes" from Judas Maccabaeus, WoO 45

Beethoven Sonata no.5 in D major, op.102, no.2

Sonata No.1 in F major, op.5, no.1

Beethoven 7 Variations on "Bei Männern, welche Liebe fühlen" from Die Zauberflöte, WoO 46