Beethoven: The Last Three Sonatas <br> Victor Rosenbaum, piano <BR> BRIDGE 9159Written between 1820 and 1822 at a time when Beethoven was suffering from a variety of maladies including nearly total deafness, each of these three sonatas stands alone as a great artistic achievement. Heard together in Victor Rosenbaum's magisterial performances, these works remind us of what vast new territories of the imagination Beethoven explored. Pianist Victor Rosenbaum became a member of the piano faculty at the New England Conservatory in

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and is a delightful compilation of virtuoso trumpet playing and rarely heard compositions

made in Boston's acoustically superb Jordan Hall

“Trumpeter Steve Lampert is someone who has also absorbed the ideas of the past and come out sounding very 21st century

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Those eleven years marked a seismic rupture in Beethoven's life and music: his recognition that his hearing disability was indeed progressive and likely incurable

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