The infamous Alfred Brendel is releasing Beethoven's complete piano sonatas—now available at a budget price in a capbox 10-cd box set. Brendel's recording of these sonatas captures his playing between 1992 and 1996. Brendel transforms the Beethoven sonatas adding his own intriguing interpretation to this set of works making them like never before. This collection is well worth the listen!

Guitar greats of two continents, Ry Cooder and Ali Farka Toure, collaborate on this session that crosses cultural boundaries from delta blues to Malian dialects.
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Media Type: CD
Artist: TOURE/COODER
Title: TALKING TIMBUKTU
Street Release Date: 03/29/1994
Domestic
Genre: ROCK/POP

Telemann's musical imagination and inventiveness are astonishing. He is in the Guinness Book of World Records as the most prolific composer in history (over 7,000 pieces!). Yet even when he turned pieces out by the dozen, as he did here, each one had its own character and individual ideas. Andrew Manze plays each one stylishly, although I would no more recommend listening to all of them together than I would advise hearing all of Bach's music for solo violin. Try a few at a time. The little Gulliver Suite, which brings the timing up to 78 minutes, is a charmer. —Leslie Gerber

Anner Bylsma, who plays a Baroque cello in original condition, has written a whole book about the variety of bow strokes needed for this music. Fancying the use of the bow as an analogue to the use of a foil in a duel, he calls Bach a "fencing master," a term that implies intense training, physical coordination used with spontaneity, and a readiness to change the approach instantly as each successive, fast-moving challenge demands. His playing makes the music fresh and new with a flexibility and vitality that illustrates the thesis of his book. —Joe McLellan

Track list:~~1-6. Suite No. 1 in G. BWV 1007~~~7-12. Suite No. 2 in D minor, BWV 1008~~~13-18. Suite No. 3 in C, BWV 1009.