Great Composers - In search of Beethoven

Opus 133, String Quartet, Grosse Fuge in B flat major
The Endellion String Quartet
Violin – Andrew Watkinson
Violin – Ralph de Souza
Viola – Garfield Jackson
Cello – David Waterman
Supported by Stradivari Trust
Courtesy of Warner Music UK

Christian Gottlob Neefe
Twelve Piano Sonatas
Fortepiano – Ronald Brautigam

WoO4, Piano Concerto in E flat major
Fortepiano – Ronald Brautigam

Haydn
Symphony Hob. I-84 in E flat
Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century
Conductor – Frans Brüggen

Mozart
K415 Concerto in C for Keyboard, no 13
Fortepiano – Ronald Brautigam
Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century
Conductor – Frans Brüggen

Mozart
K550, Symphony no. 40 in G minor
Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century
Conductor – Frans Brüggen

Haydn
Cello Concerto in C major
Cello – Roel Dieltiens
Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century
Conductor – Frans Brüggen

WoO87, Cantata on the death of Emperor Joseph II
Corydon Singers & Orchestra
Conductor – Matthew Best
Courtesy of Hyperion CDA66880

Opus 19, Piano Concerto no. 2 in B flat major
Piano – Jonathan Biss
The Salzburg Camerata
Conductor – Sir Roger Norrington
Jonathan Biss Courtesy of EMI Records limited

Opus 15, Piano Concerto no.1 in C major
Piano – Lars Vogt
The City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle
Courtesy of EMI Classics

Opus 1, no 1 Piano Trio in E flat major
Piano – Julia Fedoseeva
Violin – Alexander Sitkovetsky
Cello – Richard Harwood

Opus 2 no 1, Piano Sonata no 1 in F minor
Fortepiano – Ronald Brautigam

Opus 5 no 2, Cello Sonata in G minor
Piano – Cecile Licad
Cello – Alban Gerhardt

Opus 10 no. 2, Piano Sonata no. 6 in F major
Fortepiano – Ronald Brautigam

Opus 18 no 6, String Quartet in B flat major
The Endellion String Quartet
Violin – Andrew Watkinson
Violin – Ralph de Souza
Viola – Garfield Jackson
Cello – David Waterman
Supported by Stradivari Trust
Courtesy of Warner Music UK

Opus 21, Symphony no. 1 in C major
Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century
Conductor – Frans Brüggen

Opus 24, Violin Sonata no.5 in F major “Spring”
Piano – Julia Fedoseeva
Violin – Alexander Sitkovetsky

Opus 27 no 2, Piano Sonata no.14 in C sharp minor “Moonlight”
Piano – Lars Vogt

Opus 47, Violin Sonata in A major “Kreutzer”
Piano – Itamar Golan
Violin – Janine Jansen

Opus 37, Piano Concerto no.3 in C minor
Fortepiano – Kristian Bezuidenhout
Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century
Conductor – Frans Brüggen

Opus 55, Symphony no.3 in E flat major “Eroica”
Filarmonica della Scala
Conductor – Gianandrea Noseda
Courtesy of Musicom.it S.r.l.

Opus 53, Piano Sonata no.21 in C major “Waldstein”
Piano – Emanuel Ax

Opus 57, Piano Sonata no.23 “Appassionata” in F minor
Piano – Emanuel Ax

Opus 56, Triple Concerto for Piano, Violin & Cello in C
Piano – Boris Berezovsky
Violin – Urban Svensson
Cello – Mats Rondin
Swedish Chamber Orchestra
Conductor – Thomas Dausgaard
Courtesy of the Swedish Chamber Orchestra, örebro and Thomas Dausgaard

Opus 72, Opera, Leonore (Later re-named Fidelio)
Florestan – Clifton Forbis
Leonore – Anja Kampe
Rocco – Giorgio Surjan
Marzelline – Julia Kleiter
Jaquino – Jörg Schneider
Don Pizarro – Albert Dohmen
Don Fernando – Diogenes Randes
Mahler Chamber Orchestra Arnold Schoenberg Chor
Conductor – Claudio Abbado
Director – Chris Kraus
Coro de la Comunidad de Madrid
Courtesy of I Teatri Reggio Emilia

Opus 60, Symphony no.4 in B flat major
Norrköping Symphony Orchestra
Conductor – Andrew Parrott

Opus 61, Violin Concerto in D major
Violin – Vadim Repin
l’Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse
Conductor – Tugan Sokhiev
Vadim Repin appears courtesy of Deutsche Grammophon

Opus 59, no.2 String Quartet in E minor “Razumovsky”
The Endellion String Quartet
Violin – Andrew Watkinson
Violin – Ralph de Souza
Viola – Garfield Jackson
Cello – David Waterman
Supported by Stradivari Trust
Courtesy of Warner Music UK

Opus 62, Overture, Coriolan in C minor
Gewandhaus Orchestra, Leipzig
Conductor – Riccardo Chailly

Opus 69, Cello Sonata in A major
Piano – Christoph Berner
Cello – Richard Harwood

Opus 68, Symphony no. 6 “Pastoral” in F major
Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century
Conductor – Frans Brüggen

Opus 58, Piano Concerto no.4 in G major
Norrköping Symphony Orchestra, Sweden
Piano – Ronald Brautigam
Conductor – Andrew Parrot

Opus 58, Piano Concerto no.4 in G major
Fortepiano – Kristian Bezuidenhout
Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century
Conductor – Frans Brüggen

Opus 58, Piano Concerto no.4 in G major
Piano – Hélène Grimaud
l’Orchestre de Paris
Conductor – Christoph Eschenbach
Courtesy of Digital Classics Distribution

Opus 67, Symphony no. 5 in C minor
Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century
Conductor – Frans Brüggen

Opus 73, Piano Concerto no.5 in E flat major “Emperor”
Piano – Hélène Grimaud
Staatskapelle Dresden
Conductor – Vladamir Jurowski
Hélène Grimaud appears courtesy of Deutsche Grammophon

Opus 81a, Piano Sonata no. 26 in E flat major “Das Lebewohl”
Piano – Ronald Brautigam

Opus 74, String Quartet in E flat major “Harp”
The Endellion String Quartet
Violin – Andrew Watkinson
Violin – Ralph de Souza
Viola – Garfield Jackson
Cello – David Waterman
Supported by Stradivari Trust
Courtesy of Warner Music UK

WoO59, Piano Bagatelle: Für Elise in A minor
Piano – Ronald Brautigam

Opus 91, Wellington’s Sieg “Battle Symphony”
Berliner Philharmoniker
Conductor – Herbert von Karajan
Courtesy of Deutsche Grammophon GmbH
Under licence from Universal Music Operations Ltd

Opus 92, Symphony no. 7 in A major
Gewandhaus Orchester, Leipzig
Conductor – Riccardo Chailly

Opus 93, Symphony no. 8 in F major
I’Orchestre National de France
Conductor – Kurt Masur
Courtesy of Beethoven Festival, Bonn
Score courtesy of Breitkopf & Haertel, Wiesbaden, Editor: Peter Hauschild

Opus 46, Song “Adelaide”
Baritone – Christian Gerhaher
Piano – Gerold Huber

Opus 102, no 1 Cello Sonata in C major
Piano – Julia Fedoseeva
Cello – Richard Harwood

Opus 101, Piano Sonata no. 28 in A major
Piano – Hélène Grimaud
Courtesy of Deutsche Grammophon mbH

Opus 98, Song Cycle: An die ferne Geliebte
Baritone – Christian Gerhaher
Piano – Gerold Huber

H33 Minuet for String Quartet in A flat major
The Endellion String Quartet
Violin – Andrew Watkinson
Violin – Ralph de Souza
Viola – Garfield Jackson
Cello – David Waterman
Supported by Stradivari Trust
Courtesy of Warner Music UK

Opus 110, Piano Sonata no.31 in A flat major
Piano – Paul Lewis

Opus 111, Piano Sonata no.32 in C minor
Piano – Lars Vogt
Courtesy of EMI Classics

Opus 123, Mass: Missa Solemnis in D major
Singverein der Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Wien
Alto – Birgit Remmert
Soprano – Luba Orgonášová
Tenor – Christoph Elsner
Bass – Georg Zeppenfeld
Vienna Symphony Orchestra
Conductor – Fabio Luisi
Peter-Sylvester Lehner, Managing Director Vienna Symphony Orchestra

Opus 125, Symphony no. 9 in D minor “Choral”
Bass – Pieter Hendriks
Tenor – Marcel Beekman
Mezzosoprano – Wilke Te Brummelstroete
Soprano – Rebecca Nash
Choir – Orfeó Català
Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century
Conducted by Frans Brüggen
Recorded by Catalunya Música (Catalunya Ràdio) Musical Producer: Hugo Romano. Recording Engineer: Jordi Gelabert

Opus 131, String Quartet in C sharp minor
The Endellion String Quartet
Violin – Andrew Watkinson
Violin – Ralph de Souza
Viola – Garfield Jackson
Cello – David Waterman
Supported by Stradivari Trust
Courtesy of Warner Music UK

Opus 133, String Quartet, Grosse Fuge in B flat major
The Endellion String Quartet
Violin – Andrew Watkinson
Violin – Ralph de Souza
Viola – Garfield Jackson
Cello – David Waterman
Supported by Stradivari Trust
Courtesy of Warner Music UK