... 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 ...

... unforgettable soprano lieder of Hugo Wolf and Richard Strauss; Claudio Arrau playing the Beethoven Piano Sonatas No. 21 and 28; Igor Oistrakh's memorable recording of Beethoven's Violin Concerto in D; Artur Schnabel playing Schubert's Posthumous Sonata in B flat ...

... 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) ...

... perfect combination of writer and musician than in 1814 when the tragedy Egmont was given its first proper performance. Beethoven had heard Goethe's poem four years previously, and was immediately inspired to put it to music. The result, of course, was ...

... 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 ...

... was Beethoven. He was rarely satisfied with anything he wrote, but this was a sign of the driving force that helped to produce many great moments of music. One is particularly conscious of this power and greatness when listening to the Beethoven Sonatas ...

... 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 ...

... partnership of William Plecth, oello, often heard here, and Margaret Good, piano, provided thoughtful performances of sonatas by Beethoven and Debussy; and a newcomer, the pianist Maria Donska, gave a careful well-chosen programme. Last week saw the welcome return ...

... 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 ...