Daniel Barenboim - Warner Classics (35 Cd)

“By all accounts Beethoven was a freethinking person, and a courageous one, and I find courage an essential quality for the understanding, let alone the performance, of his works.” Daniel Barenboim – pianist, conductor and influential public figure – is closely identified with the works of Beethoven. Spanning more than 30 years, the recordings in this 35-CD collection include such landmarks as the complete symphonies and piano sonatas, the five piano concertos and Fidelio. They confirm that no other recording artist could rival Barenboim’s scope in the composer’s music. His colleagues include Jacqueline Du Pré, Plácido Domingo, Yo-Yo Ma, Itzhak Perlman and Pinchas Zukerman and the orchestras are the Berliner Philharmoniker, Berliner Staatskapelle and Chicago Symphony. The box comprises recordings made between 1966 and 1999 that originate from EMI Classics, Erato & Teldec catalogues. The repertoire includes the complete piano sonatas (recorded in the late 1960s), the complete symphonies, the five piano concertos (the versions recorded in the 1980s in Berlin), Fidelio, Missa Solemnis and the complete violin sonatas and Piano Trios (with Pinchas Zukerman & Jacqueline du Pré). In addition to studio recordings, it includes live recordings, made with theBerliner Philharmoniker, of the Violin Concerto (with Itzhak Perlman), the Triple Concerto (with Perlman and Yo-Yo Ma) and the Five Cello Sonatas (with Jacqueline du Pré). Among the artists appearing with Barenboim on these recordings are: Plácido Domingo; Jacqueline du Pré; Soile Isokoski; Yo-Yo Ma; Waltraud Meier; René Pape; Itzhak Perlman; Pinchas Zukerman. The orchestras are the Berliner Philharmoniker, Berliner Staatskapelle, Chicago Symphony Orchestra.

Price: $99.98