As the classical music community pauses to mark the 250th anniversary of Beethoven s birth, we decided to put that question to some of Canada s top classical musicians who ve spent a lot of time with LVB. They are:
James Ehnes, who released the final volume in his and Andrew Armstrong s complete set of Beethoven s sonatas for violin and piano on Dec. 11.
Angela Hewitt, whose final volume in her complete set of Beethoven s piano sonatas on Hyperion Records is expected in 2021.
Jan Lisiecki, who has released Beethoven s complete piano concertos on Deutsche Grammophon as well as an album of Lieder by Beethoven with baritone Matthias Goerne.
3 pm ET: London Philharmonic Orchestra presents
All the World’s a Stage. The LPO celebrates Brett Dean, their new Composer in Residence, with the UK premiere of
The Players. The scene is Elsinore, setting of Dean’s opera
Hamlet, with the solo role played by accordion player James Crabb. The concert begins with Bach’s
Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 and ends with Stravinsky’s mock-Baroque
Pulcinella. View here.
6 pm ET: Philadelphia Chamber Music Society presents
Mark Steinberg, Marcy Rosen, and Jonathan Biss play Beethoven. Celebrate Beethoven’s 250th birthday as three chamber music luminaries play a program of early masterworks: Cello Sonata in G Minor, Op. 5 No. 2, Violin Sonata in A, Op. 30, No. 1, and Piano Trio in G, Op. 1, No. 2. View here. LIVE
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Daniel Barenboim spent lockdown earlier this year practising the piano. One of the fruits of that intensive work has been his fifth complete recording of the Beethoven sonatas, together with the Diabelli Variations, which appeared in October. But Barenboim had already begun to revisit Beethoven for this yearâs anniversary 12 months ago, when he performed the piano trios in two concerts in Berlin, with his violinist son Michael and the cellist Kian Soltani, both former members of the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra. Whether these new discs are taken directly from those live performances isnât clear, but they were certainly recorded in the same venue, the Pierre Boulez Saal.