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Ludwig van Beethoven

  • #ClassicsaDay #November11 Week 1

    Nov 5th, 2021 | By Ralph Graves
    Tags: #ClassicsaDay, #November11, Classical music, Ferdinand Kuchler, Hakon Borresen, Ludwig van Beethoven, Samuel Barber, Twitter

    November is the eleventh month. And so the Classics a Day team opted to make eleven the month’s then. The challenge is to post works that are numbered 11 in some fashion, either an opus number, a series number, or even a suite number. It turns out that there’s a lot of great music associated […]

  • #ClassicsaDay #Stokowski Week 4

    Apr 30th, 2021 | By Ralph Graves
    Tags: #ClassicsaDay, #Stokowski, Anton Webern, Cesar Franck, Classical music, Leopold Stokowski, Ludwig van Beethoven, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Twitter

    For April, 2021, the Classics a Day Team celebrates a legend — Leopold Stokowski. He was born in April (1882), and became a cultural icon. His recording legacy spans over 60 years. And whether he was conducting a premier orchestra or a group of studio musicians, the sound was unmistakable. To share all of Stokowski’s […]

  • #ClassicsaDay #Stokowski Week 1

    Apr 9th, 2021 | By Ralph Graves
    Tags: #ClassicsaDay, #Stokowski, Alan Hovhaness, Concerto, Georges Bizet, Johannes Brahms, Leopold Stokowski, Ludwig van Beethoven, Paul Creston, Pyotr Illyich Tchaikovsky, Twitter

    For April, 2021, the Classics a Day Team celebrates a legend — Leopold Stokowski. He was born in April (1882), and became a cultural icon. His recording legacy spans over 60 years. And whether he was conducting a premier orchestra or a group of studio musicians, the sound was unmistakable. To share all of Stokowski’s […]

  • #ClassicsaDay #ClassicalTimeMachine Week 4

    Nov 27th, 2020 | By Ralph Graves
    Tags: #ClassicalTimeMachine, #ClassicsaDay, Franz Joseph Haydn, Ludwig van Beethoven, Morton Gould, Sergei Rachmanoniv, Sviatoslav Richter, Twitter

    Last month the Classics a Day team chose vintage recordings as the theme. Specifically, recordings made before the LP era. This month, the focus moves forward in time a little, to the early LP era. This runs from 1948 to about 1958, with the advent of stereo recording. In that era (as with other eras […]

  • #ClassicsaDay #ClassicalTimeMachine Week 2

    Oct 16th, 2020 | By Ralph Graves
    Tags: #ClassicalTimeMachine, #ClassicsaDay, Anton Bruckner, Edward Elgar, Frederic Chopin, Ludwig van Beethoven, Maurice Ravel, Twitter

    For the month of October, the Classics a Day team turned nostalgic. Classical musicians have been making recordings since the 1890s. So we all have over 130 years of documented performance practices. And we can judge first-hand the artistry of legendary performers. The challenge is to post classical recordings made before 1949 (pre-LP era). Here […]

  • #ClassicsaDay #ClassicalTimeMachine Week 1

    Oct 9th, 2020 | By Ralph Graves
    Tags: #ClassicalaDay, #ClassicalTimeMachine, 78 RPM, Claude Debussy, Josef Suk, Jules Massenet, Ludwig van Beethoven, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Twitter, vintage recordings, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    For the month of October, the Classics a Day team turned nostalgic. Classical musicians have been making recordings since the 1890s. So we all have over 130 years of documented performance practices. And we can judge first-hand the artistry of legendary performers. The challenge is to post classical recordings made before 1949 (pre-LP era). Here […]

  • Beethoven Cantatas Show Early Promise

    Sep 28th, 2020 | By Ralph Graves
    Tags: CD Review, choral music, Chorus Cathedralis Aboensis, Classical music, Johann Lehesvuori, Juha Kotilainen, Key Ensemble, Leif Segerstam, Ludwig van Beethoven, Naxos, Niklas Spångberg, Reetta Haavisto, Thomas Katajala, Turku Philharmonic Orchestra

    Leif Segerstam’s cycle of Beethoven choral works continues with some of his earliest compositions. In 1790, the nineteen-year-old Beethoven was a court musician in Bonn. He was commissioned to write two cantatas. Basically, it was “the king is dead, long live the king.” The first cantata was to mourn the death of the recently deceased […]

  • Beethoven remasters reveals the genius of Wilhelm Kempff

    Aug 26th, 2020 | By Tim Snider
    Tags: CD Review, Chamber music, Classical music, Ludwig van Beethoven, Pristine Classical, Wilhelm Kempff

    Had Beethoven composed nothing other than the 32 piano sonatas, his genius would have been acknowledged. These works are at the summit of the piano repertoire, and many of them are still represented in the core repertoire on the concert stage today. Beethoven intended them as studies, and there is a reference to a concert […]

  • Leif Segerstam begins Beethoven choral series

    Aug 19th, 2020 | By Ralph Graves
    Tags: CD Review, choral music, Chorus Cathedralis Aboensis, Classical music, Hanna-Leena Haapamäki, Jussi Myllys, Leif Segerstam, Ludwig van Beethoven, Naxos, Niklas Spångberg, Turku Philharmmonic Orchestra

    Ludwig van Beethoven’s oratorio was premiered at a marathon concert in 1803. And I mean marathon. The all-Beethoven program (conducted by the composer) included his first and second symphonies, plus his third piano concerto. Some of the shorter pieces scheduled were dropped due to time constraints (!). “Christ on the Mount of Olives” originally received […]

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