Beethoven -- And More!

If you've been following the most recent posts, then you know I've been working on processing the Monument Records catalog -- a catalog centered around Beethoven's under-performed and under-recorded repertoire.

While "Masters of the Classical Keyboard" does have some Beethoven (and another world premiere recording at that), pianist Stephen Beck explores other composers active at the time. Haydn and Mozart, the composers most closely associated with Beethoven are respresented, but so are some others. Beethoven's publisher, Diabelli has a work on this disc, as does Czech composer Jan Ladislav Dussek, Carl Phillip Emmanual Bach (J.S. Bach's son, and considered at the time the more famous Bach of the two), and more.

The result is an interesting collection that puts Beethoven in perspective with his contemporaries.

- Ralph