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by prustage
Wed Jan 18, 2012 8:27 pm
Forum: Music Related
Topic: What are you listening to RIGHT NOW?
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Re: What are you listening to RIGHT NOW?

Well, I had a deadline to meet that was 10 hours away so created a playlist of all the Beethoven piano sonatas in chronological order so that Friedrich Gulda and I would finish about the same time!. Its going well. Sometimes, the music just provides a wonderful background environment but at other ti...
by prustage
Wed Jan 18, 2012 7:56 pm
Forum: Music Related
Topic: Best complete Beethoven sonata cycle
Replies: 20
Views: 23184

Re: Best complete Beethoven sonata cycle

I grew up listening to Brendel's version of most of the sonatas (Vox/Turnabout) and still think this and his later Philips recordings are the benchmark by which others should be judged. My first complete cycle was the first Barenboim which I still rate very highly - but certain sonatas, usually the ...