One recording, Beethoven's "Moonlight" Sonata, Op. 27/2? Check. One recording, Beethoven's "Pathétique" Sonata, Op. 13? Check. One recording, Beethoven's "Appassionata" Sonata, Op. 57? Check. Wait. What the heck is this? One recording, Beethoven's "Fidelio" Overture, Op. 72, arranged for piano by Ignaz Moscheles? One recording, Beethoven's 7 Variations on "God Save the King," WoO 78? And what the dickens is this: one recording, Grave -- Allegro di molto e con brio -- Tempo primo, marked "As track 5 but with 'conventional' ...
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One recording, Beethoven's "Moonlight" Sonata, Op. 27/2? Check. One recording, Beethoven's "Pathétique" Sonata, Op. 13? Check. One recording, Beethoven's "Appassionata" Sonata, Op. 57? Check. Wait. What the heck is this? One recording, Beethoven's "Fidelio" Overture, Op. 72, arranged for piano by Ignaz Moscheles? One recording, Beethoven's 7 Variations on "God Save the King," WoO 78? And what the dickens is this: one recording, Grave -- Allegro di molto e con brio -- Tempo primo, marked "As track 5 but with 'conventional' repeat"? Surely, this is not your conventional Beethoven recital disc!Surely, it is not. According to the cover, the Steinway model D upon which the recital was performed is located at the Wisbech Grammar School in Cambridgeshire, one of the best piano models made housed in one of the oldest schools in England. According to the notes, Liverpool Anthony Goldstone, a "sixth-generation pupil of Beethoven," has been praised by Vienna's Die Presse as a pianist of "astonishingly profound...
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