![]() ![]() His epic was heretofore recited to patrons nightly in the concert hall - namely through his symphonies, piano sonatas, and string quartets - and continues to be codified on record. ![]() The epic myth of the scowling, hot-tempered Ludwig van Beethoven continues to loom over the classical arena and its programs. Yet the recording studio remains - even in times of normalcy - a space of timeless, socially distanced contemplation and craftsmanship, and herewith are the results for Steinway Artist Konstantin Scherbakov - who has steadfastly and chronologically released the Beethoven Piano Sonatas over the course of the year as streaming titles, and now all together, in solid form, as a box set. His 250th birthday this year unleashed a torrent of Beethoven mania across the world - much of which evaporated in the wake of a global pandemic. He has been studied, documented, put on the silver screen, fictionalized, turned into a trope and a meme. Ludwig van Beethoven (~1770–1827): composer of foundational bedrock of the canon as well as all-time game-changer - an iconoclast who has become an icon.
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