Thread: L. Beethoven

Originally Posted by Bas

I love the violin sonata's, I think number #4 in A, op. 23 is my very favourite Beethoven Composition.
A piece me dearer then his symphonies* for it's great rest, calm and yet very ingenious, sometimes even wild developments. A real masterpiece from the Great King of Harmony. I have a performance by Isabelle Faust (violin) and Alexander Melnikov (piano) as a cd on the Harmonia Mundi label (a full set of all the violin sonatas)....

I share your enthusiasm for #4. #5 is also a favorite from those sonatas. Kremer & Argerich (DG, 1987) being my preferred recording. Salut!

Originally Posted by Vaneyes

I share your enthusiasm for #4. #5 is also a favorite from those sonatas. Kremer & Argerich (DG, 1987) being my preferred recording. Salut!

I agree, sir! The 5th is indeed a brilliant piece, too. Will check out the recording you mentioned one day.

Previously the recording you’re talking about, Kremer & Argerich (DG, 1987), was my favorite, but recently I heard some new arrangements of Beethoven’s works and they were amazing! I’m talking about the disk that was recently issued and was performed by Maxim Rysanov, Kristina Blaumane and Jacob Katsnelson. If you still haven’t heard it, you can do it here.

Just borrowed Gardiner's Beethoven symphony cycle with the Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique from a friend. Hopefully this will change my mind about his orchestral work.

Originally Posted by Crudblud

Just borrowed Gardiner's Beethoven symphony cycle with the Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique from a friend. Hopefully this will change my mind about his orchestral work.

From god like to even more god like?

Sadly, no. As much as I like his chamber works, I find his orchestral music to be often quite dull. I'm hoping a seasoned expert performing them on supposedly period appropriate instruments will give me a different insight in to the symphonies.

Originally Posted by crudblud

sadly, no. As much as i like his chamber works, i find his orchestral music to be often quite dull. I'm hoping a seasoned expert performing them on supposedly period appropriate instruments will give me a different insight in to the symphonies.

Blasphemy!!!

Well, I'm certainly no stranger to that.

One of the piano students at my school performed one of Beethoven's late sonatas (I forget which). I commented to my composition teacher after the concert that Beethoven reminded me alot of Goya, because they were contemporaries, and Goya's work progressed to things reminiscent of expressionistic art, with very violent and emotional paintings, with very dark imagery. Beethoven's late music reminds me alot of Schoenberg and Debussy (the late quartets and piano sonatas, respectively). Amazing composer.

Originally Posted by jani

From god like to even more god like?

I would doubt it very much under Gardiner.

Originally Posted by moody

I would doubt it very much under Gardiner.

You're wrong.

Originally Posted by Hausmusik

You're wrong.

That's a very well thought out comment--thanks!

Originally Posted by Hausmusik

You're wrong.

Charming.

Care to elaborate?

Originally Posted by Very Senior Member

Charming.

Care to elaborate?

He might possibly not know how.

Originally Posted by moody

He might possibly not know how.

Don't sneer at people for things you yourself are guilty of. Elaborate on how Gardiner is not a good interpreter of Beethoven, as you seem to be suggesting, before getting on someone else's back for not elaborating on their own statement.