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Anthony Brandt, a musicologist whose work focuses on music cognition, talks about what this musical form and how human beings ...
The pianist’s clarity and dexterity brings humour and insights to Beethoven’s contradictory colossus of a work It has taken until now for Mitsuko Uchida to lay down a recording of Beethoven’s Diabelli ...
The Music: When, in 1819, music publisher Anton Diabelli invited Schubert, Czerny, Hummel, Liszt and Beethoven to write a variation on his, let’s be frank, spectacularly rubbish waltz theme, Beethoven ...
Beethoven's Diabelli Variationsis a monster of a piece. The composer and publisher Anton Diabelli had asked the great and the good among composers of the time (1819) for a variation each on a simple ...
Two decades ago Cédric Tiberghien recorded a disc of Beethoven variations (4/03) that included the three major sets here (Opp 34, 35 and 76). It’s been long discontinued but he’s now returned to that ...