... being able to pick and choose and give a composer a rest from time to time. Having (though quite unintentionally) rested Beethoven's chamber music for some time, the sud den issue of a batch of record ings of the string quartets, the violin and piano sonatas ...

... possibly regard Beethoven's five last quartets as music in miniature? Certainly not the Juillard String Quartet of America, if their admirable performance of the fifth of these astonishing works is anything to go by. Composed in 1826, Beethoven's String Quartet ...

... unmistak ably Beethoven. The only drawback to me is the backing of the record. This is a super-stereo version of Ferdie Giole's Grand Canyon Suite and is a maddeningly incompatible coupling. Grofe fans don't as a rule care for Beethoven and would have ...

... her approach to her subj but was forced, for cinematic purposes, to emb aider Beethoven's life story with unlikely inn lent. I may be wrong. For all I know, p iiaps Beethoven did write part of the Pastoral ym- phony while sitting under a tree in the p ...

... Schwarzkopf, soprano, Gerald Moore, piano. 8.0 Sun 8 May: Works by Bach, Haydn, Beethoven, Busoni, Schu mann. Rudolf Serkin, piano. 3.0 M 9 May: Works by Mozart, Brahms, Beethoven, Debussy, Chopin. Peter Katin, piano. 8.0 WESTMINSTER ABBEY, SW1 (ABB 1051) ...

... recorded those five excellent volumes of Mozart's wind music, have now turned their attention to Beethoven with a Decca record (mono and stereo) called Beethoven: Complete Music for Wind Band. Once more the term complete as used by gramophone com panies ...

... it looks as though some of those secrets will be evident in the string section when the RPO give their Prokofiev-Dvorak-Beethoven concert at the Royal Festival Hall on 28 November. To London's chamber music fanatics, 1959 was the year when the Italian ...

... Croydon (CRO 9291). Sat 16 Apr: Works by Beethoven. Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Hugo Rignold. Soloist: Denis Matthews, piano. 7.45 ODEON, Swiss Cottage (PRI 3424). T 19 Apr: Works by Berlioz, Beethoven, Schumann. Royal Philharmonic Orchestra ...

... because where the immense power of if his Beethoven was not easily forgotten, his Verdi was some thing we were hearing almost for the first time. Though his Fidelio has disappeared Tos canini's available Beethoven recordings for RCA still include his stupendous ...

... opera called Acrobats, about which I must say I wish I knew something. A third unfamiliar work for piano and orchestra is Beethoven's Choral Fantasy, which has a chorus in the last movement (CBS one record, mono and stereo). The choral finale is such an ...

... include dances by Schubert and Beethoven as well as by assorted Strausses, Lanner and two or three com posers who sound like Fritz Kreisler and probably were. It is a gay record (Philips: mono and stereo) and one of the Beethoven dances is the same time as ...

... performances by Toscanini dating from the 1940s. After 21 years of thinking about it, RCA have put out a recording of the Beethoven Fourth Piano Concerto in G Major (mono only) played at a broadcast in 1944 by Rudolf Serkin and conducted by Toscanini. We ...