Beethoven/ Schuch - Reflecting Beethoven Format:CD It's a fascinating and varied

It's a fascinating and varied showcase for Mancini's unique skill as a composer of screen music but also offers a window onto his wider contribution to popular music

an ingenious structure

And over the years an interpretation matured which we have now recorded on this album with sound engineer Franz Schaden near Vienna

The chiaroscuro

provide two recordings from their roster

Beethoven/ Schuch - Reflecting Beethoven Format:CD It's a fascinating and varied"Beethoven has been pressed into many categories. At times he was seen as the great Titan, at others as an idealist; later approaches occasionally attempted to "de emotionalize" his music. He simply had an incredible ability to be many things, but his music was never dispassionate. Beethoven could even sound overemotional, and then display dry wit! I see him at a crossroads in music history where he was occasionally still allowed to write plain,