I was thinking about this as I was reaching for Walter's Beethoven 4/6 (Sony Classical) for what feels like the fiftieth time since buying it a month ago. Both performances are so wonderfully moreish, I can't seem to get enough of them. Just that one CD contains such riches. Once again, I have these boards (the BaL section) to thank for being pointed to this record. Is Walter's other Beethoven just as sumptuous? There's another single disc featuring 3 and 8?
My pecuniary situation more often than not dictates such single CD purchases over multi-disc all-encompassing box sets, though I do have my eye on the forthcoming Klemperer Beethoven Symphonies & Overtures box set.
I'd like to learn of any more such wonderful single CD pairings/triplings which contain to spanking performances. Other single CD riches from my budding collection include:-
1) Beethoven's Violin Concerto and Kreutzer Sonata: Isabelle Faust, Andrew Melnikov, the Prague Philharmonia, Jiri Belohlavek
2) The classic DG pairing of Carlos Kleiber's Beethoven 5 and 7 with the VPO
3) Egmont Overture and Beethoven's Ninth, Ferenc Fricsay (DG)
My pecuniary situation more often than not dictates such single CD purchases over multi-disc all-encompassing box sets, though I do have my eye on the forthcoming Klemperer Beethoven Symphonies & Overtures box set.
I'd like to learn of any more such wonderful single CD pairings/triplings which contain to spanking performances. Other single CD riches from my budding collection include:-
1) Beethoven's Violin Concerto and Kreutzer Sonata: Isabelle Faust, Andrew Melnikov, the Prague Philharmonia, Jiri Belohlavek
2) The classic DG pairing of Carlos Kleiber's Beethoven 5 and 7 with the VPO
3) Egmont Overture and Beethoven's Ninth, Ferenc Fricsay (DG)
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