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Jorg Demus: Piano Sonata 31, op. 110

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4. Jorg Demus: Piano Sonata 31, op. 110

How about this for authenticity - Jorg Demus recorded this piano sonata on Beethoven's actual piano! Obviously, being a couple of hundred years old the tone is a little more honky-tonk than concert hall, but Demus' fantastic interpretation brings out the colours and lets us hear it as it would've sounded to the composer himself.

  1. Image 1: Karajan beethoven symphonies
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  9. Image 9: The Busch Quartet - String Quartet No. 7 - 9
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