MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Beethoven for All: Music of Power, Passion and Beauty

 
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LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Beethoven for All: Music of Power, Passion and Beauty
Daniel Barenboim (piano & conductor) / West Eastern Divan Orchestra / Staatskapelle Berlin

[ Decca / 2 CD ]

Release Date: Thursday 19 July 2012

Hailed by The Times as "one of the few musicians in the world today who could accurately be described as legendary", Daniel Barenboim is truly a musical and cultural icon of our age. For Barenboim, still passionately committed to sharing his enthusiasm over sixty years after making his professional debut in 1950 aged only seven, the message behind 'Beethoven for All' is powerful but simple: "Music is universal. Music is not elitist. Music is for all, for everybody." So, since Beethoven's music is, he believes, the most universal of all - "everywhere in the world, it speaks to all people ... it really deals with the completeness and the innermost nature of the human condition" - the logic is inescapable: "If we want music for all, then it must be Beethoven."

This double-disc set, containing essential highlights from Barenboim's new recordings of the Symphonies, Piano Concertos and Piano Sonatas, is designed to give a wider, non-specialist audience a taste of Beethoven's extraordinary music, as performed and conducted by one of its most legendary living interpreters: Daniel Barenboim.

NOTE:
Brand new. Still shrink wrapped

Tracks:

CD One:
1. Symphony No. 5 in C minor, op. 67 - I
2. Symphony No. 3 in E flat major, op. 55 "Eroica" - III
3. Piano Concerto No. 5 in E flat major, op. 73 "Emperor" - II
4. Piano Concerto No. 1 in C major, op. 15 - III
5. Piano Sonata No. 23 in F minor, op. 57 "Appassionata" - I
6. Symphony No. 6 in F major, op. 68 "Pastoral" - I
7. Piano Concerto No. 3 in C minor, op. 37 - III
8. Piano Concerto No. 4 in G major, op. 58 - III

CD Two:
1. Piano Sonata No. 14 in C sharp minor, op. 27, no. 2 "Moonlight" - I
2. Symphony No. 8 in F major, op. 93 - II
3. Piano Sonata No. 8 in C minor, op. 13 "Pathétique" - II
4. Symphony No. 6 in F major, op. 68 "Pastoral" - V
5. Piano Concerto No. 3 in C minor, op. 37 - II
6. Symphony No. 7 in A major, op. 92 - II
7. Symphony No. 9 in D minor, op. 125 - IV (complete)