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See Terms & Conditions for p&p rates. | |  | Beethoven: Piano Sonatas Volume 1Heroic Ideals & The Eternal Feminine Youth
The brilliant 24-year-old Korean pianist HJ Lim, who signed an exclusive contract with EMI Classics in September 2011, has recorded her first project for the label, an ambitious traversal of the Complete Beethoven Piano Sonatas. Lim, a Yamaha exclusive artist, recorded the sonatas on a Yamaha CFX concert grand piano in July and August 2011, grouping them into eight themes. The recordings will be released as four 2-CD sets over the course of 2012 with a complete deluxe box set to be available at the conclusion of the project. Pianists who record the Beethoven sonatas cycle usually do so at the peak of long and storied careers. With this bold and controversial recording project, HJ Lim aims to prove that at the age of 24 she is ready to record the Beethoven sonatas now. She has the intelligence and artistic vision and her powerful performances have been captivating both traditional and new audiences. She has already performed complete Beethoven sonatas cycles over eight days each in France, Germany and Japan. “Proving one’s chops at such a young age doesn’t enter into it – Lim tramples nimbly and with invention as much as she does with respect. Volume two ought to be another triumph.” Daniel Ross, bbc.co.uk, 2nd February 2012 “She plays like a whirlwind...I have never heard the first movement of the Hammerklavier played so fast: Lim believes in honouring Beethoven's metronome direction, impossible though it may seem...Some of the quirkier movements are joyfully characterised, and there are times youthful impetuousness blinds her to the music's poetry” BBC Music Magazine, April 2012 *** “Lim herself is something of a risk-taker. In general, she favours fast tempi and textures that are clear and taut to the point of being overly dry. At the same time, she sometimes employs 'old school' devices like rolling chords and breaking hands...However one responds to these exciting though sometimes wrong-headed performances, there's no doubting Lim's strong personality and fervent commitment.” Gramophone Magazine, May 2012 | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | Barenboim plays Beethoven Piano Sonatas Vol. 2Live recording from Palais Kinsky and Schloss Hetzendorf, Vienna, 1983-84
Director: Jean-Pierre Ponnelle New Release on Euroarts's sub-label: Recorded Excellence – Historical Value. The aim of the new series is to make accessible to music lovers and collectors top-quality recordings documenting extra-special concert performances that were hitherto unreleased or were no longer available, either for the first time or as re-releases on DVD and Blu-ray Disc. The main focus is on artists and repertoire. The new series will showcase defining concert moments of music history. Digitally remastered and restored from 35mm film. Including intensive and high-quality audio and visual restoration. In the second part of five DVDs, seven-time GRAMMY® Award-winning pianist and conductor Daniel Barenboim performs Sonatas 7 to 13 of the so-called 'New Testament' of music, Ludwig van Beethoven's thirty-two piano sonatas. Composed over twenty-five years and embodying the shift of musical taste from the Classic to the Romantic, their performance requires a musician of extraordinary versatility. Daniel Barenboim is one such pianist – his recordings run the gamut from Bach and Mozart to Bruckner and Bartók. In following in the footsteps of such masters as Artur Schnabel, Barenboim truly shows himself to be among the greatest living musicians. Picture format DVD: NTSC 16:9 Sound format DVD: PCM Stereo Region code: 0 Booklet notes: English, German, French Running time: 157mins German FSK: 0 “Barenboim brings to these a freshness of approach, and sensitivity. His expressive powers are wondrous and he captures the full range of emotions that these works have to offer. You get the feeling that he really understands this music and that he has an improvisatory and spontaneous approach.” MusicWeb International, 22nd April 2013 | 
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| |  | Beethoven: Complete Piano Sonatas Vol. 5
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| |  | Beethoven: Piano Sonatas Nos. 9, 10, 19, 20, 24 & 25
1SACD+DVD Born in Osaka, Mari Kodama left Japan as a child and grew up in Germany, Switzerland, France and England. She studied piano with Germaine Mounier at the Conservatoire National de Paris and later became a private pupil with Alfred Brendel. She has an international reputation for her musical sensitivity and outstanding virtuosity. Includes Bonus DVD. “Everything proceeds in a faultless flow of sound and in this sense her credentials are impeccable. Never bearing down heavily on the music, she always allows Beethoven his own voice.” Gramophone Magazine, March 2011 | | | (also available to download from $10.50) | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. (Available now to download.) |
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| |  | Beethoven: Piano Sonatas Volume 3
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This is a recital of rarities by one of the most important and controversial pianists of the 20th century. He was as at home in the world of jazz as well as classical music and this brought elitist criticism. He performs Bach’s Capriccio sopra la lontananza del suo fratello dilettissimo BWV 992 (first time on CD), Beethoven’s Piano Sonatas Nos 10 and 31 and works by Haydn which he rarely performed in public. | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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| |  | Grigory Sokolov, Live in ParisA film by Bruno Monsaingeon
Performance recorded on 4 November 2002, Paris Grigory Sokolov, a giant of the piano. Maybe today’s greatest pianist... Sold out concerts a few days only after the putting up for sale of the tickets... A real phenomenon not to be missed... The only existing DVD with this exceptional artist is once again available. A dim light picks out the outlines of the hall. Suddenly a massive shadow appears and moves swiftly over to the keyboard. There follows the vaguest of unsmiling acknowledgements in the general direction of the audience, and then the music begins. Throughout the next two hours, this music will keep its listener enthralled with its extraordinary intensity as the audience senses the formidable physical, pianistic, musical and emotional presence of this most secretive of present-day pianists, Grigory Sokolov. “Cosmic Piano. Since, as for Glenn Gould, but in opposite aesthetics, one might say: ‘There is Sokolov, and there are the pianists’.” Le Figaro, November 2007 Picture format DVD: NTSC 16:9 Sounds formats DVD: PCM Stereo Region code: 0 Booklet notes: English, French Running time: 123 mins FSK: 0 | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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| |  | Grigory Sokolov - Live on ParisA film by Bruno Monsaingeon. Performance recorded on 4 November 2002
The only DVD of Grigory Sokolov, an exceptional artist, famously reclusive, is once again available. In the 40 years since the 16-year-old Sokolov was awarded first prize at the Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow in 1966, the world has been blessed with what one American critic recently called "a kind of pianism, musicianship and artistry one thought had vanished forever". Championed at a young age by Emil Gilels and a prominent figure on the Russian music scene since his early teens, Sokolov has gained an almost mythical status amongst music-lovers and pianophiles throughout the world. Sokolov has amazed everyone again and again with the enormous breadth of his repertoire and his huge, almost physical musical strength. Visa problems have again made Italy-based Russian pianist Grigory Sokolov cancel a London booking. After last year's Barbican concert was called off at short notice came the news that he would not be visiting the Royal Festival Hall on 29th April as planned. "Sokolov, although a well-kept secret, is for many the greatest pianist alive today. Youthful celebrities with fast fingers, designer gear and slick photos pall beside such gigantic artistry, for Sokolov is a pianistic Dostoyevsky, his music-making vast in scope, visionary and revelatory, squeezing out every last drop of meaning." Jessica Duchen, International Piano Sept/Oct 2006 "There can be few virtuosi with fingers to touch his" The Sunday Times Region Code: NTSC 0 Picture Format: NTSC 16:9 Sound Format: PCM-STEREO Disc Format: DVD9 No of Discs: 1 Run Time: 123 mins Released: 2009-06-01 “The elusive Sokolov is sensitively filmed.” BBC Music Magazine, November 2010 **** “…Monsaingeon has resisted the obvious temptation to be too interventionist. Limiting the number of different angles at which we survey Sokolov's phenomenal pianism to a bare minimum certainly enables the viewer to be hypnotically drawn into the performances which in themselves are pretty remarkable.” BBC Music Magazine, September 2009 ***** “…Sokolov, a bulky, impassive figure, is fascinating to watch, playing as he does with dangerously high hand movements and expressive gestures. Three Beethoven sonatas are played in an uninterrupted sequence with such beauty of tone, sculptured phrasing and cohesive narrative that criticism is silenced. ...Prokofiev's Seventh Sonata, a coruscating, vehement reading that will make the hairs on the back of your neck stand on end. Unmissable for all pianophiles.” Gramophone Magazine, November 2009 | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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| |  | Idil Biret Beethoven Edition - Volume 10Piano Sonatas Volume 5
The latest instalment in the Idil Biret Archive Beethoven Piano Sonatas series, this volume includes the famous Moonlight sonata. | | | (also available to download from $6.00) | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. (Available now to download.) |
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