To: ZGuy
In addition to conductors, I'd like to list my favorite performers of Beethoven's piano music:
- Vladimir Horowitz
- Artur Rubenstein (I was lucky enough to hear Rubenstein perform at Constitution Hall in Washington DC in 1975)
- Artur Schnabel
13 posted on
12/16/2006 11:33:31 AM PST by
COBOL2Java
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To: COBOL2Java
Don't forget Alfred Brendel.
14 posted on
12/16/2006 11:37:58 AM PST by
Publius
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To: COBOL2Java
It's interesting you'd pick Horowitz and Rubinstein, neither of which were known as great Beethoven players. Rubinstein is great in the Waldstein though. Its' heroic aesthetic suited his clear and forthright style.
34 posted on
12/16/2006 1:55:09 PM PST by
Borges
To: COBOL2Java
I think Rubinstein's Beethoven (I heard him in '76 when, as I suppose it was in '75, he couldn't see the keyboard due to the macular degeneration) was wonderful too. But Horowitz' Beethoven? I would question that strongly. What a pianist (I heard him in '75, 2nd row center, immediately behind Wanda), but Beethoven? His interpretations leave me cold.
59 posted on
12/16/2006 3:40:08 PM PST by
jammer
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