| Pires is best known as an outstanding Mozart interpreter, and she brings a very Mozartian sense of balance and nuance to her Beethoven. |
| Off the top of my head, I can think of several wonderful accounts of the Tchaikovsky, but when I get to Beethoven, I become rather picky. |
| When the young Beethoven arrived in Vienna in 1792, the musical zeitgeist was defined by Haydn and Mozart. |
| Possokhov uses excerpts from fellow Ukrainian Yuri Krasavin's film scores and abridgments of familiar Beethoven works. |
| That the portraits of Beethoven did not bear much likeness to the composer could be deemed a deliberate transgression. |
| On the lieder disc there are songs by Beethoven, Schubert, Schumann, Brahms and Strauss, plus Mahler's complete Kindertotenlieder. |
